icky (redirected from ickiness)

ick·y  (k)

adj. ick·i·er, ick·i·est Informal

1. Disagreeably sticky: icky candy.

2. Offensive; distasteful: icky sentimentality.

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icki·ly adv.

icki·ness n.

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icky [ˈɪkɪ]

adj ickier, ickiest

1. sticky

2. excessively sentimental or emotional

ickiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	icky - very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
	2.	icky - soft and sticky gooey adhesive - tending to adhere

Translations

icky [ˈɪkɪ] ADJ (= sticky) → todo pegajoso (fig) (= horrible) → asqueroso

icky [ˈɪki] adj (mainly US)

(= sentimental) → gnangnan inv

(= sticky) → poisseux/euse

icky

adj (inf)

(= yucky) → ekelhaft, eklig (inf)

(= sentimental) → kitschig (pej)