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Sticky Stickiness Adjective Substance Soft Thick Liquid Stick

word sticky
definition
adjective
A sticky substance is soft, or thick and liquid, and can stick to other things. Sticky things are covered with a sticky substance.
...sticky toffee.
If the dough is sticky, add more flour.
Peel away the sticky paper.
...the stickiness of her hands.
A sticky situation involves problems or is embarrassing .
Inevitably the transition will yield some sticky moments.
Her research was going through a sticky patch.
Sticky weather is unpleasantly hot and damp .
...four desperately hot, sticky days in the middle of August.
inflections stickierstickieststickiness
cefr-level B2

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