Synonyms for adhesive
- adjective
- noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
- n. 1
a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
They used an adhesive to repair the broken vase.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- adhesives → glues, stickers, cements, pastes…
Choose the right word
Adhesive is the scientific, sticking or sticky the popular word. That which is adhesive tends to join itself to the surface of any other body with which it is placed in contact; cohesive expresses the tendency of particles of the same substance to hold together.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- sticky This sticky tape is no good – it keeps coming off.
- gummy These sugar-free gummy bears are also laxatives.
- adherent I'm not an adherent of Islam.
- glutinous Glutinous rice is more common in Asian dishes.
By length
- 4 letters
- glue1
- 5 letters
- tough1, paste1, tacky2, gummy2, gooey2, pasty, ropey, gluey
- 6 letters
- cement2, sticky2, clingy, clammy2, viscid, smeary
- 7 letters
- sticker2, viscous2, stringy2
- 8 letters
- clinging2, cohesive3, adherent3
- 9 letters
- tenacious3, glutinous, stickable
- 12 letters
- mucilaginous
- 13 letters
- agglutinative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tacky2 = 2 syllables).