Usually means: Adheres most strongly to surfaces.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word stickiest:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. stickiest: Merriam-Webster
  2. stickiest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stickiest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stickiest: Wordnik
  5. stickiest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stickiest: Wiktionary
  7. stickiest: Dictionary.com
  8. stickiest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. stickiest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. stickiest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stickiest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stickiest: Idioms

(Note: See sticky as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sticky)

adjective:  Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
adjective:  Difficult, awkward.
adjective:  Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
adjective:  Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
adjective:  Mawkish, sentimental.
adjective:  (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
adjective:  (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
adjective:  (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
adjective:  (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
noun:  A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
noun:  (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun:  (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
noun:  (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
noun:  (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
noun:  (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Wax.
verb:  (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun:  (slang) A member of the Official Irish Republican Army.
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