viscous

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• /ˈvɪs.kəs/
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• homophone: viscus
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• rhymes with -ɪskəs
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• CMU ARPABET: V IH1 S K AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in 1605. Borrowed from Middle French visqueux and Late Latin viscōsus, from Latin viscum (“birdlime”). Doublet of viscose.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَزِج (lazij) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Assamese: বীজল (bizol) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Central Bikol: mapulot — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Bulgarian: вискозен (viskozen) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Burmese: ပျစ် (pyac) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Catalan: viscós — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Chinese Mandarin: 黏的 — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Chinese Mandarin: 黏稠的 — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Czech: vazký — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Czech: viskózní — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Czech: hustý — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Danish: viskøs — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Dutch: viskeus — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Dutch: dik — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Dutch: lobbig — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Dutch: dikvloeibaar — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: sakea — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: sitkeä — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: tahmea — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: viskoottinen — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: viskoosinen — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Finnish: viskoosi — having a thick, sticky consistency
• French: visqueux — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Friulian: viscôs — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Galician: viscoso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Georgian: ბლანტი (blanṭi) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Georgian: მწებვარე (mc̣ebvare) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• German: zähflüssig — having a thick, sticky consistency
• German: viskos — having a thick, sticky consistency
• German: dickflüssig — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Greek: ιξώδης (ixódis) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Hindi: श्यान (śyān) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Hungarian: viszkózus — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Indonesian: kental — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Italian: viscoso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Italian: vischioso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Japanese: 粘性の (nensei no) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Kapampangan: marayuput — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Kapampangan: maraiuput — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Macedonian: ви́скозен (vískozen) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Macedonian: густ (gust) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Macedonian: ле́плив (lépliv) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: likat ليکت — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: lekat لکت — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: pekat — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: ڤکت — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: kental — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Malay: کنتل — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Māori: ware — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Māori: tataki — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Occitan: viscós — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Pashto: ټينګ (ṭing) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Persian: لَزِج — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Persian: چَشبنَاک — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Polish: lepki — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Polish: kleisty — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Portuguese: viscoso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Romanian: vâscos — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Romanian: cleios — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Russian: вя́зкий (vjázkij) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Russian: густо́й (gustój) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Russian: ли́пкий (lípkij) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Russian: кле́йкий (kléjkij) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Serbo-Croatian: viskozno — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Slovak: viskózny — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Slovak: hustý — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Slovak: väzký — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Slovene: viskózen — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Spanish: viscoso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Spanish: alastoso — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Spanish: alaste — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Swedish: trögflytande — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Swedish: viskös — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Swedish: grötig — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Tagalog: malapuyot — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Ukrainian: в'язки́й (vʺjazkýj) — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Vietnamese: sệt — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Vietnamese: đặc — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Welsh: gludiog — having a thick, sticky consistency
• Welsh: trioglyd — having a thick, sticky consistency