stickily

1. 1.

   in a sticky viscid manner

   “he felt the blood move stickily from his split scalp and trickle down his forehead”

   Synonymsviscidly

Questions about stickily

What does stickily mean?

stickily means "in a sticky viscid manner".

How many syllables are in stickily?

stickily has 3 syllables and divides as stic-ki-ly 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 stickily?

Close synonyms include viscidly. 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 stickily a common word?

stickily 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.