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clingy

/kling-ee/US // ˈklɪŋ i //

粘人,黏糊糊的,粘人的,黏人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    cling·i·er, cling·i·est.

    • : apt to cling; adhesive or tenacious: a clingy fabric.

Synonyms & Antonyms

What does clingy mean?

A person who is overly attached to or emotionally dependent on another person can be described as clingy.What are some other words related to clingy?needyhigh-maintenancecontrollingjealous

Examples

  • They can be irritable or clingy and have meltdowns over seemingly tiny things.

  • It retained some sweat on sweltering runs, but it never got saturated and clingy.

  • Malaria parasites survive tough times by not being too clingy.

  • Over the years, Miss Piggy has been faulted for her clingy, seemingly obsessive relationship with Kermit the Frog.

  • And a few weeks later, he committed the same offense, stepping outside in some (un)fortunately super-clingy pants.

  • Vivian Salama on why Yemenis can't shake their clingy ex-president.

  • If Karzai were a clingy ex, Obama could then change his phone number or, in the worst-case scenario, file a restraining order.

  • Clad head to toe in clingy black fabrics—the top half of her sequined!

  • And when he had made up his mind what to do he gritted his teeth and put both arms about the Clingy Thing.

  • She was as remote as the stars, he knew, yet a moment before he had felt her soft, clingy scarf blowing against his face.

  • I hed a gown o' thet once: it was drefful kind o' clingy stuff.

  • The stuff was spongy and sticky and clingy, and he had now sunk deep into it up to his stomach.