gelatinous

The word “gelatinous” has 4 syllables: ge-lat-i-nous

It's pronounced as /dʒɪˈlætɪnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for gelatinous?

In the thesaurus, “gelatinous” has 23 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for gelatinous along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gelatinous

  • adherent
  • adhesive
  • clingy
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • gooey
  • gummy
  • jelled
  • jellied
  • jelly-like
  • mucilaginous
  • pitchy
  • pudding
  • ropey
  • ropy
  • sticky
  • syrupy
  • tacky
  • tarry
  • tenacious
  • thick
  • viscid
  • viscous

Antonyms for gelatinous

  • liquid
  • nonadhesive
  • nonviscous

Meanings of gelatinous

  • adjective
    1. Jelly-like.
    2. Of or referring to gelatin.

Example Sentences

  • The gelatinous texture of the dessert made it difficult to cut neatly.
  • The pond water had a gelatinous consistency, making it appear thick and slimy.
  • After cooking, the sauce became gelatinous, perfect for coating the chicken.
  • The scientist noted that the gelatinous substance helped preserve the specimen.
  • The jellyfish's body is gelatinous, giving it a soft and flexible structure.

On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gelatinous, such as: adherent, adhesive, clingy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

tacky

  • abandoned
  • adherent
  • adhesive
  • beat-up
  • bedraggled
  • bombed-out
  • broken
  • broken-down
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • clingy
  • coarse
  • common
  • crude
  • damaged
  • decaying
  • decrepit
  • desolate
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
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  • dingy
  • dog-eared
  • dowdy
  • down-at-heel
  • down-at-heels
  • down-at-the-heel
  • down-at-the-heels
  • dumpy
  • faded
  • flashy
  • forlorn
  • frumpy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gelatinous
  • glitzy
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • godforsaken
  • gone to seed
  • gooey
  • graceless
  • grotesque
  • grungy
  • gummy
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • inappropriate
  • incorrect
  • inelegant
  • inferior
  • injured
  • junky
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • loud
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • mangy
  • mean
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  • miserable
  • moth-eaten
  • nasty
  • neglected
  • ostentatious
  • out-of-date
  • outmoded
  • overdone
  • pitchy
  • poky
  • rackety
  • ragged
  • ramshackle
  • rattletrap
  • ratty
  • rickety
  • ropey
  • ropy
  • ruined
  • run down
  • run-down
  • scrubby
  • scruffy
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • shoddy
  • showy
  • sleazy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • splashy
  • sticky
  • stodgy
  • styleless
  • syrupy
  • tarry
  • tasteless
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • tatty
  • tawdry
  • tenacious
  • threadbare
  • ticky-tack
  • ticky-tacky
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • trashy
  • tumbledown
  • unbecoming
  • unfashionable
  • unkempt
  • unkept
  • unrefined
  • unseemly
  • unstylish
  • unsuitable
  • untidy
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • vulgar
  • worn-out
  • wrecked
  • wrong

caked

  • addled
  • bemired
  • besmeared
  • bespattered
  • blurred
  • boggy
  • calcified
  • cemented
  • clabbered
  • close
  • clotted
  • coagulated
  • coated
  • compact
  • compressed
  • concrete
  • condensed
  • confused
  • congealed
  • conglomerated
  • consolidated
  • covered
  • crowded
  • crusted
  • curdled
  • daubed
  • deep
  • dingy
  • dirty
  • dried
  • dull
  • encrusted
  • filthy
  • firm
  • fixed
  • flat
  • foul
  • fuzzy
  • gelatinous
  • gloomy
  • gloppy
  • gooey
  • greasy
  • grimy
  • grubby
  • gummous
  • gummy
  • gunky
  • hardened
  • hazy
  • heavy
  • impenetrable
  • impervious
  • impure
  • incrusted
  • indistinct
  • indurate
  • jelled
  • jellied
  • marshy
  • miry
  • monolithic
  • mucky
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • ossified
  • petrified
  • poured
  • precast
  • rimed
  • roily
  • ropy
  • set
  • set in stone
  • sloppy
  • slushy
  • smeared
  • smoky
  • sodden
  • soggy
  • soiled
  • solid
  • solidified
  • spread
  • steeled
  • stiff
  • strong
  • subfuse
  • swampy
  • syrupy
  • thickened
  • turbid
  • unclean
  • unclear
  • unyielding
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • vitrified

jelled

  • annealed
  • arthritic
  • associated
  • benumbed
  • brittle
  • buckram
  • caked
  • cemented
  • chilled
  • clabbered
  • close
  • close-grained
  • clotted
  • clumped
  • coagulated
  • coalesced
  • cohered
  • combined
  • compact
  • compressed
  • concentrated
  • concrete
  • concreted
  • condensed
  • congealed
  • conjoined
  • conjugated
  • connected
  • consolidated
  • contracted
  • coupled
  • creaky
  • crowded
  • crystalized
  • crystallized
  • curded
  • curdled
  • deep
  • dense
  • entrenched
  • fine-grained
  • firm
  • fixed
  • formed
  • froze
  • frozen
  • fused
  • gelated
  • gelatinized
  • gelatinous
  • gelled
  • gloppy
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • gooey
  • graceless
  • gummed
  • gummous
  • gummy
  • gunky
  • hard
  • hard and fast
  • hardened
  • heavy
  • hidebound
  • immalleable
  • immovable
  • impenetrable
  • impermeable
  • impervious
  • impliable
  • incompliant
  • indurate
  • indurated
  • inelastic
  • jellied
  • jelly-like
  • joined
  • located
  • mashy
  • mechanical
  • mucilaginous
  • muddy
  • nonliquid
  • nonporous
  • numbed
  • opaque
  • ossified
  • pap
  • pastelike
  • petrified
  • placed
  • positioned
  • pudding
  • pulpous
  • pulpy
  • quaggy
  • refractory
  • resistant
  • rheumatic
  • rigid
  • ropy
  • semiliquid
  • semisolid
  • set
  • settled
  • sited
  • situate
  • situated
  • sloppy
  • slushy
  • solid
  • solidified
  • spongy
  • squashy
  • squishy
  • stable
  • starched
  • starchy
  • stark
  • steely
  • sticky
  • stiff
  • stiff as a board
  • stiffened
  • stony
  • strict
  • stubborn
  • sturdy
  • substantial
  • syrupy
  • taut
  • tense
  • thick
  • thickened
  • tight
  • tough
  • turbid
  • unbending
  • unflexible
  • ungraceful
  • unified
  • united
  • unsupple
  • unyielding
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • vitrified
  • wooden

jellied

  • caked
  • clabbered
  • close
  • clotted
  • clumped
  • coagulated
  • compact
  • compressed
  • concrete
  • concreted
  • condensed
  • congealed
  • consolidated
  • crowded
  • curded
  • curdled
  • deep
  • firm
  • fixed
  • froze
  • gelated
  • gelatinized
  • gelatinous
  • gelled
  • gloppy
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • gooey
  • gummed
  • gummous
  • gummy
  • gunky
  • hard
  • hardened
  • heavy
  • impenetrable
  • impervious
  • indurated
  • jelled
  • jelly-like
  • mucilaginous
  • nonliquid
  • opaque
  • ossified
  • pudding
  • ropy
  • set
  • sloppy
  • solid
  • solidified
  • sticky
  • stiff
  • stiffened
  • syrupy
  • thick
  • thickened
  • turbid
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • vitrified

jellylike

  • all aquiver
  • aquake
  • aquiver
  • ashake
  • concentrated
  • condensed
  • creamy
  • faltering
  • fluctuant
  • gelatinous
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • gooey
  • gummy
  • heavy
  • infirm
  • insecure
  • jerry-built
  • jittery
  • nervous
  • not set
  • precarious
  • quaking
  • quivery
  • rattletrap
  • rickety
  • rocky
  • rootless
  • ropey
  • ropy
  • semifluid
  • semiliquid
  • shaking
  • slushy
  • sticky
  • syrupy
  • thick
  • thickened
  • thickish
  • tottering
  • tottery
  • tremorous
  • tremulous
  • tumbledown
  • turbid
  • undiluted
  • unfirm
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsure
  • vacillating
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • wavering
  • weak
  • wobbly
  • yielding

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