stuck

Plural: stucks

Verb

• Past tense of stick; fixed in position.
• put, fix, force, or implant
• stay put (in a certain place)
• stick to firmly
• be or become fixed
• endure
  • "The label stuck to her for the rest of her life"
• be a devoted follower or supporter
• be loyal to
  • "The friends stuck together through the war"
• cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
• fasten with an adhesive material like glue
• fasten with or as with pins or nails
• fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
• pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
  • "he stuck the cloth with the needle"
• pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
  • "He stuck the needle into his finger"
• come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
  • "The label stuck to the box"
• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
  • "They stuck me with the dinner bill"
• be a mystery or bewildering to
  • "This question really stuck me"
• simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

Adjective

• caught or fixed
  • "stuck in the mud"

Adjective Satellite

• baffled
  • "this problem has me completely stuck"

Adj

• Unable to move.
• Unable to progress with a task.
• No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
• In the situation of having no money.

Noun

• A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.

Examples

• Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
• He felt STUCK with a rack full of consonants and no vowels in Words With Friends.
• If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
• I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
• There are several ways to close a stuck program.

Synonyms

adhere, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, bind, bond, cleave, cling, cohere, deposit, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, hold fast, lodge, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stand by, stay, stay put, stick, stick around, stick by, stick to, sting, stupefy, vex, wedge, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, fixed, flat, hard up, immobile, immotile, immovable, impecunious, impoverished, in need, inanimate, indigent, inert, insolvent, lifeless, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, rigid, sessile, shillingless, skint, static, stationary, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unmovable, unmoveable, unwealthy, wealthless

Antonyms

dislodge, move, unstuck

Anagrams of stuck