Definitions for sticky

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sticky stick·y

Spelling: [stik-ee]

IPA: /ˈstɪk i/

Sticky is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in sticky (ciksty).

Definitions for sticky

noun

1. one of a number of small sheets of paper on a pad, each having an adhesive backing that allows it to be positioned and repositioned on smooth surfaces.

adjective

1. having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
2. covered with adhesive or viscid matter:
3. (of the weather or climate) hot and humid:
4. requiring careful treatment; awkwardly difficult:
5. Informal. unpleasant; unfortunate; nasty:

Origin of sticky

1720-30; 1910-15 for def 4; stick² + -y¹

Examples for sticky

Each of them was coated in something resembling a gray, sticky batter.

Here and there something brown and sticky on the leaves caught the scout's eye.

She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.

And then, when he had slipped his hand back into hers, he had encountered a sticky chocolate!

That was cold, and I was covered in sticky blood in winter in England, on a castle wall.

That dirty little red, moving, sticky object was a human being.

Paddle8 already has a “sticky collector base who are addicted to the site,” he says.

Somebody could be giving us a drink instead of a sticky carburetor.

It was too dark to see the color, but I knew from the sticky feeling of it just what it was.

The street had been transformed into a morass of sticky mud by the storm.