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Synonyms for pasty

  • adjective

Most common

sticky viscous glutinous gluey washed-out pallid pastelike

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Gluey

gluey, glutinous, sticky, viscous, gummy, viscid, adhesive, mucilaginous, slimy, clammy, tenacious

2. Pallid

pallid, washed-out, colorless US, colourless UK, wan, livid, bleak, sallow, ashen, bloodless

Other

pastelike, ropey

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Like paste, sticky.

    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.

  2. adj. 2

    Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

    (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

Related words

Phrases
nipple pasty
Other spellings
pastie

Example sentences

  • sticky This sticky tape is no good – it keeps coming off.
  • viscous Condensed milk is more viscous than normal milk.
  • glutinous Glutinous rice is more common in Asian dishes.
  • pallid The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pastyrising
stickyrising
viscousfalling
glutinoussteady
glueyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
wan1
5 letters
bleak1, slimy2, gummy2, livid2, ashen2, ropey, gluey
6 letters
sticky2, clammy2, pallid2, sallow, viscid
7 letters
viscous2
8 letters
adhesive3
9 letters
tenacious3, colorless3, bloodless2, glutinous, pastelike
10 letters
colourless
12 letters
mucilaginous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (slimy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
pâteux
Italiano
pastoso
Español
pastoso
Deutsch
teigig