gelatinous

[juh-lat-n-uhs]

adjective

1. having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.

2. pertaining to, containing, or consisting of gelatin.

gelatinous

/ dʒɪˈlætɪnəs /

adjective

1. consisting of or resembling jelly; viscous

2. of, containing, or resembling gelatine

Other Word Forms

• gelatinously adverb
• gelatinousness noun
• gelatinity noun
• nongelatinous adjective
• nongelatinously adverb
• nongelatinousness noun
• subgelatinous adjective
• subgelatinously adverb
• subgelatinousness noun
• ungelatinous adjective
• ungelatinously adverb
• ungelatinousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gelatinous¹

First recorded in 1715–25; gelatin + -ous

Example Sentences

The sticks are soft and gelatinous with a slight crisp from their outer layers — simply put, a textural masterpiece.

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His first big win was a tapioca substitute nicknamed “Mitchell’s mud”—a gelatinous, starchy blend designed to keep soldiers full in the field.

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He described taking a spoonful of someone else’s bowl and saying, “Absolutely not” — it was “gelatinous,” he told Thompson.

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Eventually, after language “melted into a gelatinous pool,” she quit and entered the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1965.

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Jokura was not the only scientist to make a milestone discovery after wandering past a tank containing a gelatinous animal.

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