sticky

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Having the property of adhering or sticking to a surface; adhesive.
2. adj. Covered with an adhesive agent.
3. adj. Warm and humid; muggy: a sticky day.
4. adj. Informal Painful or difficult: a sticky situation.
5. adj. Economics Tending to remain the same despite changes in the economy. Used of prices or wages.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Having the property of adhering to a surface; inclining to stick; adhesive; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
2. Humid; producing stickiness; muggy: as, a disagreeable, sticky day.
3. Like a stick; stiff.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Able or likely to stick.
2. adj. Potentially difficult to escape from.
3. adj. computing, informal, of a setting Persistent.
4. adj. computing, of a window Appearing on all virtual desktops.
5. adj. Internet, of threads on a bulletin board Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
6. adj. Internet Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
7. adj. Of weather, hot and wind-less and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
8. n. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
9. n. manufacturing A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
10. v. Internet, bulletin boards to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
2. adj. hot or warm and humid
3. adj. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
4. adj. covered with an adhesive material
5. adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive