Synonyms for viscous
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Glutinous — having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity)
glutinous, viscid, sticky, thick, syrupy, gluey, slimy, gelatinous, gummy, gooey informal, stringy, stiff, adhesive, pasty, tenacious, clammy, mucilaginous, slabby, smeary, thickflowing
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity).
Related words
- Word family
- viscousness viscid viscidity viscometer viscose viscosimeter viscosity
- Is a kind of
- adhesive fluidic semifluid semiliquid polysaccharide
- Other spellings
- viscoid
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Glutinous, gummy, viscid, and viscous are applied to fluid or semi-fluid substances, as pitch or tar.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- sticky This sticky tape is no good – it keeps coming off.
- glutinous Glutinous rice is more common in Asian dishes.
By length
- 5 letters
- thick1, stiff1, slimy2, gummy2, gooey2, pasty, ropey, gluey
- 6 letters
- sticky2, clammy2, syrupy, viscid, smeary, slabby
- 7 letters
- stringy2
- 8 letters
- adhesive3
- 9 letters
- tenacious3, glutinous
- 10 letters
- gelatinous4
- 12 letters
- mucilaginous, thickflowing
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (slimy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- visqueux
- Deutsch
- zähflüssig
- Català
- viscós