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say it: nahn-STIK
nonstick is an adjective meaning "(of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles". It is pronounced /nɑnˈstɪk/ — nahn-STIK. It carries one recorded sense.
(of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles
“a frying pan with a nonstick surface”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonstick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.