sticky

Meanings

Plural: stickies

Adjective Satellite

• having the sticky properties of an adhesive
• moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
  • "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"
• hot or warm and humid
  • "sticky weather"
• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
  • "a sticky question"
• covered with an adhesive material

Adj

• Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
• Difficult, awkward.
• Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
• Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
• Mawkish, sentimental.
• Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
• Persistent.
• Appearing on all virtual desktops.
• Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
• Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
• Resembling or characteristic of a stick.

Noun

• A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
• A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
• A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
• A sweet dessert wine.
• Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
• Wax.

Verb

• to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

Synonyms

adhesive, awkward, claggy, close, embarrassing, gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, muggy, pasty, steamy, sultry, tenacious, unenviable, viscid, viscous

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