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stickly

stickly

9.9
Covered with many small sticks and twigs that make it messy
  • adjective
translation icon : espinoso
  • After the storm, the path became stickly with fallen branches and twigs.

Examples

  • We avoided the stickly area near the riverbank to keep our clothes clean.

  • The forest floor was so stickly that it was hard to find a place to sit.

  • The stickly branches tangled in her hair.

  • He avoided the stickly underbrush on the trail.

  • After the rain, the trail was stickly with fallen twigs and branches that made walking difficult.

  • The children loved playing in the stickly area of the forest, where they could climb over tangled tree limbs.

  • I had to carefully navigate through the stickly underbrush to avoid getting snagged by the thorny bushes.

Antonyms

clear
866 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

smooth
256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

How Tangled

entangled
1 5.3
stickly
9.9

Surface Forms

stickly positive

Morphology

stickly = stick (transparent) = stick + ly

Meaning 'full of or characterized by sticks' is directly derived from the noun 'stick' plus an adjectival suffix, so learners can infer the sense from the base.

Etymology

Stickly comes from the simple word stick, which means 'a small branch', and the ending -ly that can mean 'like' or 'full of'. So stickly can mean 'covered with small sticks or twigs', just like a place full of fallen branches.