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glutinous

Syllables: glu·ti·nous/ˈɡluːtɪnəs/

glutinous adjective: glue-like, sticky, viscid.

Adjective

glutinous (comparative more glutinous, superlative most glutinous)

  1. Glue-like, sticky, viscid.
    • Then comes the dinner, a glutinous spread that seems simultaneously generous and disgusting, but no one ever touches the food2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
  2. Of the nature of gluten.
  3. Containing gluten.

glutinous meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog

glutinous in Urdu

چپچپا, لزج

glutinous in Malayalam

viscous, sticky, viscid
ഒട്ടുന്ന, പശപോലെ ഒട്ടുന്ന, സക്ത, ഒട്ടിപ്പിടിക്കുന്ന, പശയുള്ള, പശിമയുള്ള

glutinous in Kannada

glue-like
ಜಿಗಟಾದ jigaṭāda, ಅಂಟಾದ aṇṭāda, ಅಂಟಂಟಾದ aṇṭaṇṭāda, ಅಂಟುವ aṇṭuva

glutinous in Tagalog

glue-like
malagkit, maligat
More languagesFewer languages
glutinous in Vietnamese
dính

Synonyms of glutinous

Forms of glutinous

comparativemore glutinous
superlativemost glutinous

Origin of glutinous

From Latin glūtinōsus. By surface analysis, gluten + -ous.

Words formed from glutinous

Phrases with glutinous

Questions about glutinous

What does glutinous mean?
Glutinous means glue-like, sticky, viscid.
What is glutinous in Urdu?
Glutinous in Urdu is چپچپا, لزج. See Glutinous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is glutinous?
Glutinous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce glutinous?
Glutinous is pronounced /ˈɡluːtɪnəs/.

Words near glutinous in the dictionary

  1. glutinative
  2. glutinoid
  3. glutinoids
  4. glutinose
  5. glutinosity
  6. glutinous
  7. glutinous hag
  8. glutinous hags
  9. glutinous rice
  10. glutinous rices
  11. glutinously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glutinous (page history and authors); glutinous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glutinous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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