stickier
- 1Comparative of sticky.
The dough turned stickier once she added more melted sugar.
Pine sap is far stickier than most people expect.
Note
The y of sticky turns to i before the -er ending, as with happier and tidier. The comparative carries every meaning of the base word, not only the gluey one. A situation can get stickier (more awkward), an afternoon stickier (more humid), a ballad stickier (more mawkish), and a habit stickier (harder to shift). Context, not form, tells you which comparison is meant.
Negotiations got stickier after the second offer was rejected.
The afternoon grew stickier as the storm clouds gathered.
stickier is a form of sticky
sticky, adjective: Tending to stick to surfaces, especially because a viscous substance dries and bonds to them. Full entry
- Spelling
- sticky → stickier: change y to i, add -er
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