adhesive

• adhæsive (obsolete)

From French adhésif, from Medieval Latin adhaesivus, from adhaereō (supine adhaesum); see adhere.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ædˈhi.sɪv/

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adhesive (comparative more adhesive, superlative most adhesive)

1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

   adhesive material

   adhesive tape

2. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

• (sticky): claggy, tenacious; see also Thesaurus:adhesive

adhesive (countable and uncountable, plural adhesives)

1. a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion

• “adhesive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adhesive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.