English Dictionary

sticky

/ˈstɪki/

adj

Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. / Potentially difficult to escape from. / Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.

The sticky candy stuck to my fingers.

意味（1）

Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?

意味（2）

Potentially difficult to escape from.

This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.

意味（3）

Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.

The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.

意味（4）

(finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

a sticky price; sticky wages

意味（5）

(computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.

We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.

意味（6）

(computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.

意味（7）

(Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

意味（8）

(Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.

意味（9）

Similar to a stick