glutinous

What does glutinous mean?

glutinous means "having the sticky properties of an adhesive".

How many syllables are in glutinous?

glutinous has 3 syllables and divides as glu-ti-nous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for glutinous?

Close synonyms include gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glutinous a common word?

glutinous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glutinous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.