coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance

adhesive bandages.

sticking fast; sticky; clinging.

Physics . of or pertaining to the molecular force that exists in the area of contact between unlike bodies and that acts to unite them.

a substance that causes something to adhere, as glue or rubber cement.

adhesive tape.

Philately . a postage stamp with a gummed back, as distinguished from one embossed or printed on an envelope or card.

adjective

inadhesive , loose , open , separated , unattachable

adjective

adherent , adhering , agglutinant , attaching , clinging , clingy , gelatinous , glutinous , gooey , gummed , gummy , holding , hugging , mucilaginous , pasty , resinous , sticky , tenacious , viscid , viscous , waxynotes:adhesive is a substance for sticking one thing to another; cohesive refers to particles of the same substance sticking together , gluey , tacky , bond , cement , epoxy , glue , mastic , mucilage , paste , stickum , tape