Dictionary

viscid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈvɪsɪd/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin viscum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Late Latin viscidus English viscid From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).

Meanings

1. Having a high viscosity.
2. Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
   • They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter. 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room:
   • The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump. 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, Epilogue, pp. 315-316:
3. Covered with a viscid layer.

Forms

Antonyms

inviscid · inviscid · inviscid

Deriveds

viscidness · subviscid · viscidation · nonviscid · viscidity · mucoviscid · semiviscid · viscidly · viscidize · mucoviscidosis

Synonyms

mucilaginous · viscous

Translations (8)

pl lepki (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · bg лепкав (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · ru кле́йкий (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · la viscidus (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · pl zawiesisty (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · mi piapia (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · ru ли́пкий (sticky, slimy, or glutinous) · bg слузест (sticky, slimy, or glutinous)