gelatinous en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tən.əs/ (New-Zealand, nonstandard)
- /d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- jə-lăt′ĭn-əs
- jĕl′ə-tĭn-əs (nonstandard)
- /ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tɪn.əs/ (Australia, nonstandard)
- /d͡ʒəˈlat.ɪn.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /d͡ʒəˈlɛt.ən.əs/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˈd͡ʒɛl.ə.tɪn.əs/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland, nonstandard)
Etymology
From gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux.
Meanings
-
Jelly-like.
Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC:In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.
1866, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 216:Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 165:And when it comes to mochi, the Japanese rice dough, much of its appeal can be attributed to a glorious bounce or a gelatinous squish or a comforting kind of gloop.
2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021:
- Of or referring to gelatin.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more gelatinous | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| gelatineous | alternative, uncommon | lexicographic | |
| gelatinose | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| most gelatinous | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
subgelatinous · nongelatinous · semigelatinous · gelatinousness · gelatinously
Hypernyms
thick · semisolid · semifluid · semiliquid
Relateds
Synonyms
tremellose · jellylike · gelatinous
Translations (32)
pl żelatynowy (of or referring to gelatin) · cmn 動物膠的 /动物胶的 (of or referring to gelatin) · ru студени́стый (jelly-like) · ka ჟელატინისებრი (of or referring to gelatin) · ka ლაბოვანი (jelly-like) · cmn 膠質 /胶质 (jelly-like) · ka ჟელატინისებრი (jelly-like) · ca gelatinós (jelly-like) · it gelatinoso (jelly-like) · de gelatineartig (jelly-like) · pl galaretowaty (jelly-like) · eo gelatena (jelly-like) · ka ჟელატინის (jelly-like) · ca gelatinós (of or referring to gelatin) · fr gélatineux (jelly-like) · fi hyytelömäinen (jelly-like) · de Gelatine- (of or referring to gelatin) · fi gelatiininen (of or referring to gelatin) · ru желатиновый (of or referring to gelatin) · sv gelatinartad (jelly-like) · ka ჟელატინის (of or referring to gelatin) · de gelatinös (jelly-like) · ka ლაბრისებრი (of or referring to gelatin) · ast xelatinosu (jelly-like) · sl želatinast (of or referring to gelatin) · cs rosolovitý (jelly-like) · pt gelatinoso (jelly-like) · gl xelatinoso (jelly-like) · es gelatinoso (jelly-like) · de geleeartig (jelly-like) · cmn 膠狀 /胶状 (jelly-like) · sl zdrizast (jelly-like)