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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticking |
| Synonyms: | adherent, adhering, agglutinant, attaching, clinging, clingy, gelatinous, glutinous, gooey, gummed, gummy, holding, hugging, mucilaginous, pasty, resinous, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous, waxy |
| Notes: | adhesive is a substance for sticking one thing to another; cohesive refers to particles of the same substance sticking together |
| Antonyms: | inadhesive, loose, open, separated, unattachable |
| Main Entry: | devout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sincerely believing; devoted |
| Synonyms: | adherent, adoring, ardent, deep, earnest, faithful, fervent, fervid, genuine, godly, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, heart-and-soul, heartfelt, holy, intense, orthodox, passionate, pietistic, pious, prayerful, profound, religious, reverent, revering, serious, sincere, venerating, worshiping, zealous |
| Antonyms: | insincere, irreligious, unbelieving |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fixed, immovable |
| Synonyms: | adherent, ardent, attached, close, constant, constrained, durable, faithful, fastened, firm, fortified, glued, held, impregnable, indelible, inextricable, lasting, loyal, permanent, resistant, resolute, secure, set, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, stuck, sure, tenacious, tight, true, true blue, unwavering, wedged |
| Antonyms: | flexible, impermanent, insecure, loose, movable, unattached, unfixed |
| Main Entry: | clinging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adhesive |
| Synonyms: | adherent, agglutinant, coherent, osculant, persistent, tenacious, viscid, viscous |
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