clingy
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈklɪŋi/
- Informal
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pegajoso
- But the guy before him was too clingy.
- get clingy
- too clingy
- really clingy
By doing new activities, you will change your mind from being clingy to being happy.
- By doing new activities, you will change your mind from being clingy to being happy.
- I ain't think she could do it right, because I, I know how, how clingy she was, right?
- And that means that people with this pattern, they tend to be very clingy.
- Now, a lot of people in the world may refer to those people as clingy.
- And if the parent is real clingy, then that's not a splitting off, it's a revolt.
- This can result in the narcissistic person looking clingy and deriving their self esteem from their partner.
- I'm told I'm alienating and clingy, but that's not the important thing, that's from my father.
- So for example, preschoolers may progress in terms of their behaviors, become more clingy, right?
- And then he was just so like clingy and like just so uncomfortable that me and Alyssa were just joking around about it.
Examples
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The child is fearful, clingy, and regresses.
Academic text (1997) -
But she was way too clingy, always needing to know where I was and what I was doing all the time.
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Maybe she was a little clingy at times.
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Is it normal for a boy his age to be so clingy with his mother?
Blog text (10) -
So I get quite clingy or quite attached in that sense.
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If you ignore these cues, you end up coming off as clingy and desperate.
Blog text (14) -
We've been together for two years now, and I'm just now realizing that he's a little clingy.
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You come on too strong, you're too clingy, you're too needy.
Blog text (22) -
She's kinda clingy.
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His clingy behavior made it hard for her to have her own space.
Synonyms
52
2.7
Always wanting a lot of attention and comfort from others
1
4.7
Needing help from other people or things too much
Antonyms
Compounds
How Needy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clingy comes from the verb cling, which means 'to hold on' or 'stick to', and the ending -y which means 'full of'. So a clingy person is like something sticky that keeps holding on and needs constant attention.