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viscous

[ vis-kuhs ]

adjective

  1. of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.
  2. having the property of viscosity.


viscous

/ ˈvɪskəs /

adjective

  1. (of liquids) thick and sticky; viscid
  2. having or involving viscosity


viscous

/ vĭskəs /

  1. Having relatively high resistance to flow (high viscosity ).


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Derived Forms

  • ˈviscously, adverb
  • ˈviscousness, noun

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Other Words From

  • viscous·ly adverb
  • viscous·ness noun
  • hyper·viscous adjective
  • pseudo·viscous adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of viscous1

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin viscōsus, equivalent to Latin visc ( um ) mistletoe, birdlime (made with mistletoe berries) + -ōsus -ous

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Word History and Origins

Origin of viscous1

C14: from Late Latin viscōsus; see viscose

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Example Sentences

What The Great Beauty and Fellini share is the Roman light—3,000 years of viscous sun.

These comments will likely be much more viscous/personal/sexual in nature than those bombing your male colleagues.

Plus there was a secondary sheen on the water that was more viscous.

Black gays, in turn, are accusing their white gay peers of viscous racism.

Besides these threads, small knots are seen rising in different places; they are viscous, and easily dissolved by heat.

Probably it is a gas so viscous that it would resist motion as pitch or putty does.

It is much less fusible than ordinary soda-glass, and passes through a longer intermediate or viscous stage when heated.

In amplexus the members of a pair sometimes become glued together by their viscous dermal secretions.

A viscous precipitate forms which frequently loses its viscosity when heat is applied.

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