adjective (stickier, stickiest)
1 made of or covered in a substance that sticks to things that touch it:
sticky fingers covered in jam * Stir in the milk to make a soft but not sticky dough.
2 (of paper, labels, etc.) with glue on one side so that you can stick it to a surface
3 (informal) (of the weather) hot and damp:
a sticky, humid afternoon
4 (informal) (of a person) feeling hot and uncomfortable
SYNSWEATY:
She felt hot and sticky after six hours on the bus.
5 (informal) difficult or unpleasant:
a sticky problem / situation * Their relationship is going through a sticky patch and they've decided to have counselling.
stickily adverb stickiness noun [U]
IDIOMS
have sticky fingers (informal) to be likely to steal sth
a sticky wicket (BrE, informal) a difficult situation
moreatENDn.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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