Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling gelatin; viscous.
- adj. Of, relating to, or containing gelatin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of gelatin; of the nature or consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. thick like gelatin
Examples
“Her tiny transparent feet, covered in gelatinous skin, look like those of some aquatic creature.”
“Blacks were dehumainzed just as fetuses Latin for baby were originally described as gelatinous globs.”
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“These stains are called gelatinous plaques, which are transparent and invisible to the naked eye except when colored by iodine.”
“The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them.”
“Whatever their substance may have been, it is described as gelatinous -- "soapy and jellied.”
“People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot.”
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“Packer says that the Senate is "gelatinous" and "stagnant" and he spent time in the Senate and found that "everything happens there except deliberation.”
“Oh, and is it just me, or does that goat/sheep's head is surrounded by some kind of gelatinous substance?”
“It was slippery, Bennett said, much more "gelatinous" than his previous squid quarry.”
“It seems likely that the stopovers shown by sunfish 3 signify encounters with preferred pelagic prey such as gelatinous zooplankton, the distribution of which is highly patchy”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gelatinous’.
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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Gygax's Glossary
In hesitant beginning of a tribute to the man who—before Nabokov or Joyce or anyone 1000 times more exalted—infected me with a fever for language.
psionic, prismatic, gelatinous, dweomer, initiative, kobold, geas, shambling, gibbering, cuirass, halberd, ioun stone and 4 more...
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My Favorite Words(:
These are all the words I LOVE! Some are real, some are made up, some are different languages. But I love em' all just the same!
sheath, spectacular, spectabulousarific, lovely, hola, silly, rice, nostalgia, lemons, jargon, strucken, perpendicular and 11 more...
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Words We Dislike!
A list created for TRM, because there are certain words that we just kind of hate.
lover, fetus, smegma, saggy, coulomb, placenta, consumate, moist, sticky, bedroom suit, jiggles, blubber and 52 more...
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