Another word for clinging | Synonyms for clinging

Another word for clinging

adjective

Persistently holding to something:

fast, firm¹, secure, tenacious, tight. See free, tighten

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She wiped away the pine needles clinging to her clothes.
They all raised their heads to listen, and out of the forest into the bright firelight stepped two strangely clad human figures clinging to one another.
The girl giggled, clinging tighter to his arm.
Taran accepted it, once again unsettled by the darkness clinging to the book.
For garden purposes loam should be rather unctuous or soapy to the touch when moderately dry, not too clinging nor adhesive, and should readily crumble when a compressed handful is thrown on the ground.

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