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stick out

stick out verb: to protrude.

Verb

stick out (third-person singular simple present sticks out, present participle sticking out, simple past and past participle stuck out)

  1. (transitive) To protrude.
    • He stuck out his tongue at me.
    Synonyms:
    obtrude
  2. (intransitive) To protrude; to extend beyond.
    • His tongue was sticking out.
    • I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end will stick out from the back.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive.
    • The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones.
    • I really wasn't caring, but I felt my eyes staring / At a guy who stuck out in the crowd / He had the kind of body that would shame Adonis / And a face that would make any man proud1979, Sister Sledge, “He's the Greatest Dancer”, in We Are Family
  4. To persist until the end; stick it out.

stick out meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

stick out in Tamil

துருத்து

stick out in Malayalam

jut (out), protrude, project
ഉന്തിനിൽക്കുക, മുഴച്ചുനിൽക്കുക, മുന്തിനില്ക്കുക, തള്ളിനിൽക്കുക, ഉന്തളിക്കുക, മുന്നിലേക്കു തള്ളിനിൽക്കുക
be visible, be noticeable, be obvious
ശ്രദ്ധിക്കാനിടയാകുക, ശ്രദ്ധേയമാകുക, ശ്രദ്ധയിൽപെടുന്നതാകുക, കാണപ്പെടുക, സ്പഷ്ടമാകുക, വ്യക്തമാകുക

stick out in Kannada

ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಪಟ್ಟುಹಿಡಿ, ತಾಳು, ಹೊರಚಾಚಿರು, ಸುತ್ತಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರು, ಗಮನ ಸೆಳೆಯುವಂತಿರು

Synonyms of stick out

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Forms of stick out

third-person singular presentsticks out
present participlesticking out
past participlestuck out
paststuck out

Words formed from stick out

Questions about stick out

What does stick out mean?
Stick out means to protrude.
What is stick out in Tamil?
Stick out in Tamil is துருத்து. See Stick out meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stick out?
Stick out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stick out?
The past tense of stick out is stuck out.

Words near stick out in the dictionary

  1. stick one's neck out
  2. stick one's nose in
  3. stick one's nose into
  4. stick one's oar in
  5. stick one's tongue out
  6. stick out
  7. stick out a mile
  8. stick out like a sore thumb
  9. stick out like dog's balls
  10. stick out one's tongue
  11. stick phone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stick out (page history and authors); stick out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stick out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); stick out (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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