Gluey
adjective
Having a texture similar to glue; sticky, thick or viscous.
The sauce was so gluey that it stuck to the spoon.
Often appears as...
- gluey paste
- gluey mixture
adjective
Clumsy or awkward, as if caused by sticky or viscous material.
Her movements were gluey as she tried to pull her feet from the muddy ground.
Often appears as...
- gluey movement
- gluey steps
adjective
Having a texture similar to glue; sticky, thick or viscous.
The sauce was so gluey that it stuck to the spoon.
Often appears as...
- gluey paste
- gluey mixture
adjective
Clumsy or awkward, as if caused by sticky or viscous material.
Her movements were gluey as she tried to pull her feet from the muddy ground.
Often appears as...
- gluey movement
- gluey steps
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gluey' to describe objects that feel like they stick to you or other things.
The gluey dough made rolling it out a challenge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Gluey' often suggests an unpleasant or undesired stickiness in food or substances.
The gluey mashed potatoes were unappetizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'gluey' sparingly; too much can make writing feel repetitive or simplistic.
Her hair turned gluey in the rain, sticking to her face.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gluey' to describe objects that feel like they stick to you or other things.
The gluey dough made rolling it out a challenge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Gluey' often suggests an unpleasant or undesired stickiness in food or substances.
The gluey mashed potatoes were unappetizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'gluey' sparingly; too much can make writing feel repetitive or simplistic.
Her hair turned gluey in the rain, sticking to her face.
Pro Tip 1/3Texture Focus
Use 'gluey' to describe objects that feel like they stick to you or other things.
The gluey dough made rolling it out a challenge.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Gluey' often suggests an unpleasant or undesired stickiness in food or substances.
The gluey mashed potatoes were unappetizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'gluey' sparingly; too much can make writing feel repetitive or simplistic.
Her hair turned gluey in the rain, sticking to her face.
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
have evolved some peculiar adaptations which allow them to graze without competition their huge long tongues are pigmented a colored dark gluey color which protects them from the Sun and this enables them to eat high in the treetops all day long not only are they
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Why do we kiss under...
trees carry up their trunks To colonize nearby trees with its seeds, mistletoe depends on birds and other creatures to do the dispersing. Birds that eat the mistletoe's sticky white berries sometimes get rid of the gluey seeds by wiping them off onto tree bark.
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Robert Full: The secrets...
but they use those same wings to flip over if they get destabilized. Very effective. Robust systems are also fault tolerant and fail-safe. This is the foot of a cockroach. It has spines, gluey pads and claws, but if you take off those feet,
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Walking Alone in the...
I will eat those kapok flower, and those flower are incredible, because they're juicy, a bit gluey, not much taste, but that will fill my tummy. So after a while, after a few weeks,
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
have evolved some peculiar adaptations which allow them to graze without competition their huge long tongues are pigmented a colored dark gluey color which protects them from the Sun and this enables them to eat high in the treetops all day long not only are they
Video examples
Why do we kiss under...
trees carry up their trunks To colonize nearby trees with its seeds, mistletoe depends on birds and other creatures to do the dispersing. Birds that eat the mistletoe's sticky white berries sometimes get rid of the gluey seeds by wiping them off onto tree bark.
Video examples
Robert Full: The secrets...
but they use those same wings to flip over if they get destabilized. Very effective. Robust systems are also fault tolerant and fail-safe. This is the foot of a cockroach. It has spines, gluey pads and claws, but if you take off those feet,
Video examples
Walking Alone in the...
I will eat those kapok flower, and those flower are incredible, because they're juicy, a bit gluey, not much taste, but that will fill my tummy. So after a while, after a few weeks,
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch Scientist
I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.
Quote examples
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch Scientist
I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.
Example 1 of 1
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