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adj. covered with an adhesive material

adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

doughy, soggy

adj. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down

adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

thick

adj. abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"

adherent

adj. sticking fast

agglutinate, agglutinative

adj. united as if by glue

bondable

adj. capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass

coherent, tenacious

adj. sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"

cohesive

adj. causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"

gooey, icky

adj. soft and sticky

gummed, gummy

adj. covered with adhesive gum

pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry

adj. having the characteristics of pitch or tar

self-sealing

adj. seals without the application of moisture; "self-sealing envelopes"

stick-on

adj. of something (a paper label or postage stamp) gummed in advance; "stick-on labels"

bedewed, dewy

adj. wet with dew

besprent

adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

humid

adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather"

damp, dampish, moist

adj. slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

sodden, soppy

adj. wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"

dripping

adj. having liquid falling in drops; "in the dripping fog"; "the scene where he is singing in the rain in dripping clothes"; "there was little shelter under the dripping trees"

misty

adj. wet with mist; "the misty evening"

hydrous, hydrated

adj. containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)

steaming, steamy

adj. filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steamy towels"

perspiring, sweaty

adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"

reeking, watery

adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"

showery, rainy

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

soggy, waterlogged

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

watery

adj. filled with water; "watery soil"

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