gelatinous
adj/d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/CA/d͡ʒəˈlat.ɪn.əs/UK/ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tɪn.əs/
Etymology
From gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux.
- borrowed from gélatineux
Definitions
Jelly-like.
- Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
- Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
Of or referring to gelatin.
The neighborhood
- synonymgelatinous
- synonymjellylike
- synonymtremellose
- antonymrunny
- antonymfluid
- neighborviscous
- neighborsemifluid
- neighborsemiliquid
- neighborsemisolid
- neighborthick
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gelatinous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA