pasted

2.8

Attached to something with glue, like paper or a label

adjective
/ˈpeɪstɪd/

: pegado

After the project was finished, the notes were pasted on the board for everyone to see.

Examples

When Hokusai lived in Japan, all publications were produced by woodblock, which meant that the artist's drawing was pasted down onto a block.
And there's an internal Evernote link pasted in the calendar notes.
Except I think of you like a young tree with pasted on leaves and know you'll root and the real green thing will come.
Our gene of interest is pasted or covalently bonded through phosphodiester bonds that join up.
The decoration on the wall was made of pasted paper, creating a vibrant mural.
She used a brush to apply glue and carefully placed the pasted images in the scrapbook.

Synonyms

glued

vspasted

Informal

1 3.0

Stuck firmly in one place or unable to stop paying attention

is attached using spreadable adhesive rather than a solid strip

taped

vspasted

1.1

Held in place by tape

is attached using spreadable adhesive rather than a sticky strip

Antonyms

loose

155 1.0

Not tight so it can move or fall off

detached

2 4.3

Something loose and not fixed to the thing it belongs to

Surface Forms

pasted positive

Morphology

pasted = paste (transparent) = paste + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'paste'; the meaning 'attached with paste/glue' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word pasted comes from paste, which originally meant soft 'dough' or a wet mix like pasta, and so it was used for something 'sticky'. So, to paste something is to make it 'stick' or be 'glued', and pasted means 'attached' as if with glue.