viscid

Adjective

viscid (comparative more viscid, superlative most viscid)

1. Having a high viscosity.

   Synonyms:

   viscous

   Antonyms:

   inviscid

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

   Synonyms:

   mucilaginous

   Antonyms:

   inviscid

3. Covered with a viscid layer.

   Antonyms:

   inviscid