gelatinous
Americanadjective
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having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.
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pertaining to, containing, or consisting of gelatin.
adjective
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consisting of or resembling jelly; viscous
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of, containing, or resembling gelatine
Other Word Forms
- gelatinity noun
- gelatinously adverb
- gelatinousness noun
- nongelatinous adjective
- nongelatinously adverb
- nongelatinousness noun
- subgelatinous adjective
- subgelatinously adverb
- subgelatinousness noun
- ungelatinous adjective
- ungelatinously adverb
- ungelatinousness noun
Etymology
Origin of gelatinous
Example Sentences
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This Thanksgiving, you deserve better than gelatinous, canned cranberry sauce slop.
From Salon
The sticks are soft and gelatinous with a slight crisp from their outer layers — simply put, a textural masterpiece.
From Salon
His first big win was a tapioca substitute nicknamed “Mitchell’s mud”—a gelatinous, starchy blend designed to keep soldiers full in the field.
From Salon
He described taking a spoonful of someone else’s bowl and saying, “Absolutely not” — it was “gelatinous,” he told Thompson.
From Los Angeles Times
Eventually, after language “melted into a gelatinous pool,” she quit and entered the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1965.
From Los Angeles Times
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