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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs stick, sticker and sticky which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sticky
  1. Able or likely to stick.
  2. Potentially difficult to escape from.
  3. Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
  4. (computing) Persistent.
  5. (computing) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
  6. (Internet) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
  7. (Internet) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “The fragments of my soul have not yet been pieced back together with the sticky glue from the corner store.”
      “The honey is then used to create a healthy and nutritious elixir with a sticky consistency.”
      “The sultry, sticky heat that usually hangs over central Japan in summertime might have been bothersome to many.”
stuck
  1. Trapped and unable to move.
  2. Unable to progress.
  3. Stop work (functioning), freeze up, freeze.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The heavy door was stuck and would not budge despite our best attempts to open it.”
      “The misshapen objects were stuck together with massive grids and metallic structures.”
      “He will now be stuck in jail for a while to pay for his crimes.”
stickery
  1. Of, or pertaining to, stickers
  2. Similar to a sticker
  3. sticky, able to stick
sticker
  1. (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).
stick
stickable
  1. Capable of being stuck; adhesive.
stickproof
  1. Resistant to sticking.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After applying a layer of stickproof coating to the pan, the omelette effortlessly slid off its surface.”
stucke
  1. Obsolete spelling of stuck
sticklike
  1. Resembling a stick in form
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Instantaneously, Melody's hazel eyes snapped onto the sticklike sweets with an eager look of anticipation.”
      “Painted on the wall is a succession of sticklike human figures, clearly in full running stride.”
      “His robes, loosely draped around his tall but sticklike figure, were trimmed in silver-blue and stood impossibly white among the sand and dirt.”
stickerless
  1. Without stickers.
stickless
  1. Having no stick.
stickest
  1. (nonstandard, informal) superlative form of stick: most stick (stickiest).
stickier
  1. comparative form of sticky: more sticky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To make your website stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, and an event calendar.”
      “They are marked by eruptions of cooler, stickier lavas such as andesite, dacite and rhyolite.”
      “Rain early Thursday has made the mud and piling garbage alongside roads stickier and stinkier.”
stickiest
  1. superlative form of sticky: most sticky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Controlling the content on the stickiest kids' site on earth is an increasingly sticky matter.”
      “Grand new achievements are now impossible without resolution of some of the stickiest of trade issues.”
      “How to cover skyrocketing health care costs is one of the stickiest public as well as personal issues linked to aging populations.”
sticked
sticking
stickered
stickering
stickied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sticky
stickying
  1. present participle of sticky
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