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: stic-ki-ly. The stress falls on "stic".

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.