| ADJECTIVE | all | adhesive | tending to adhere |
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| NOUN | substance | adhesive, adhesive material, adhesive agent | a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together |
| Sounds | aedhhiy'sihv; ahdhhiy'sihv | |
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| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 301 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | tending to adhere. | |
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| Narrower | adherent | sticking / sticking fast |
| agglutinate, agglutinative | United as if by glue | |
| bondable | capable of holding together or cohering | |
| coherent, tenacious | sticking together | |
| cohesive | Causing cohesion | |
| gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous | Having the sticky properties of an adhesive | |
| gooey, icky | Soft and sticky | |
| gum-like | resembling chewing gum | |
| gummed, gummy | Covered with adhesive gum | |
| pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry | Having the characteristics / characteristics of pitch or tar | |
| self-sealing | seals without the application of moisture | |
| stick-on | Of something (a paper label or postage stamp) gummed in advance | |
| sticky | Covered with an adhesive material | |
| Opposite | nonadhesive | not tending to adhere |
| Nouns | adhesive | a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together |
| adhesiveness | the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | |
| Verbs | adhere | stick / stick to firmly |
| Meaning | A substance that unites or bonds surfaces together. | |
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| Synonyms | adhesive material, adhesive agent | |
| Narrower | binder | Something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface |
| birdlime, lime | A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | |
| cement | Something that hardens to act as adhesive material | |
| paste, library paste | An adhesive made from water and flour or starch | |
| rubber cement | An adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha | |
| spirit gum | An adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin | |
| Broader | material, stuff | The tangible / tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
| Substances | epoxy, epoxy resin, epoxy glue | A thermosetting resin |
| Adjectives | adhesive | tending to adhere |
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