sticky
/ˈstɪki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
adj
adj
Appearing on all virtual desktops.
Example Sentences
- "Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?"
- "Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits."
- "This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful."
- "GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives."
- "Among the books Mum brought me to read when I was a child were The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, as well as their author Frances Hodgson Burnett's smash hit, Little Lord Fauntleroy. I haven't met an adult my age who has read this book but I did so several times. It's a sticky book, guided by that strange Victorian obsession with "the little mother" – the same obsession that Virginia Woolf, a child of Victorian parents, grappled with in her diaries and her fiction. Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else."
- "Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull."
Etymology
From stick + -y.