Usually means: Excessively attached and emotionally dependent.
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  1. clingy: Merriam-Webster
  2. clingy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clingy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Clingy, clingy: Wordnik
  5. clingy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clingy: Wiktionary
  7. clingy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Clingy, clingy: Dictionary.com
  9. Clingy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Clingy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. clingy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Clingy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. clingy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. clingy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. clingy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. clingy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. clingy: Legal dictionary

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  1. clingy: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clingy)

▸ adjective:  Having a tendency to cling.
▸ adjective:  (informal, usually derogatory) Pathetically attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.

Similar:
clingsome, clutchy, body-hugging, cliquey, Slinky, barnaclelike, grippy, cuddly, clumpish, clumpy, more...

Opposite:
independent, self-sufficient, detached, aloof

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    pale pink,     lavender,     baby blue,     mint green,     soft peach, more...



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Similar:
clingsome, clutchy, body-hugging, cliquey, Slinky, barnaclelike, grippy, cuddly, clumpish, clumpy, more...

Opposite:
independent, self-sufficient, detached, aloof

Colors:
    pale pink,     lavender,     baby blue,     mint green,     soft peach, more...



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