Standard Lemma guide

stuck

adj · name · noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /stʌk/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Ireland, Northern-England: /stʊk/
  • rhymes with -ʌk
  • CMU ARPABET: S T AH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Unable to move.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
  • If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: static, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert, lifeless, sessile, rigid, stationary, stuck, unmoveable

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Unable to progress with a task.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • There are several ways to close a stuck program.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

In the situation of having no money.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: broke, penniless, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, farthingless, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, groatless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, moneyless, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective

Meaning 8

caught or fixed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • stuck in the mud

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: unstuck

9

adjective satellite

Meaning 9

baffled

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • this problem has me completely stuck

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

German surname, from the noun Stück (“portion, piece”). Compare Stueck.

Compare stoccado.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: ngec — trapped and unable to move
  • Albanian: ngujuar — trapped and unable to move
  • Arabic: عَالِق (ʕāliq) — trapped and unable to move
  • Arabic: عَالِق (ʕālig) — trapped and unable to move
  • Arabic: مَعْزُوق (maʕzūg) — trapped and unable to move
  • Arabic: مَحْشُور (maḥšūr) — trapped and unable to move
  • Catalan: encallat — trapped and unable to move
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡住 (kǎzhù) — trapped and unable to move
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡 (kǎ) — trapped and unable to move
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡關 /卡关 (kǎguān) — trapped and unable to move
  • Finnish: jumissa — trapped and unable to move
  • French: bloqué — trapped and unable to move
  • French: coincé — trapped and unable to move
  • German: eingeklemmt — trapped and unable to move
  • German: festgeklemmt — trapped and unable to move
  • German: festsitzen — trapped and unable to move
  • German: feststecken — trapped and unable to move
  • German: stecken — trapped and unable to move
  • Italian: intrappolato — trapped and unable to move
  • Italian: bloccato — trapped and unable to move
  • Latin: fīxus — trapped and unable to move
  • Lithuanian: įstrigęs — trapped and unable to move
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sitja fast — trapped and unable to move
  • Polish: zaklinowany — trapped and unable to move
  • Portuguese: preso — trapped and unable to move
  • Romanian: înțepenit — trapped and unable to move
  • Russian: застря́вший (zastrjávšij) — trapped and unable to move
  • Spanish: atascado — trapped and unable to move
  • Spanish: atrapado — trapped and unable to move
  • Spanish: pegado — trapped and unable to move
  • Spanish: atollado — trapped and unable to move
  • Spanish: atorado — trapped and unable to move
  • Swedish: fast — trapped and unable to move
  • Tày: cà — trapped and unable to move
  • Tày: cạng — trapped and unable to move
  • Thai: ค้าง (káang) — trapped and unable to move
  • Thai: ติด (dtìt) — trapped and unable to move
  • Thai: คา (kaa) — trapped and unable to move
  • Ukrainian: застря́глий (zastrjáhlyj) — trapped and unable to move
  • Walloon: astok — trapped and unable to move
  • Albanian: ngelur — unable to progress
  • Albanian: metun — unable to progress
  • Catalan: encallat — unable to progress
  • Finnish: jumissa — unable to progress
  • German: festgefahren — unable to progress
  • German: festgesetzt — unable to progress
  • Italian: ostruito — unable to progress
  • Italian: bloccato — unable to progress
  • Italian: inceppato — unable to progress
  • Polish: utknąć — unable to progress
  • Spanish: atascado — unable to progress
  • Swedish: fast — unable to progress
  • Tày: cạng — unable to progress
  • Thai: ค้าง (káang) — unable to progress
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