Stuck

English

Adjective

stuck

1. Trapped and unable to move.

   Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck.

   Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck.

2. Unable to progress.

   I'm stuck on this question in the test.

Derived terms

• get stuck

Verb

stuck

1. Simple past of stick.

Thesaurus

addled, adhering, agglutinate, aground, anchored, at a loss, at a nonplus, at a stand, at a standstill, at an impasse, baffled, bamboozled, beat, bewildered, bonded, buffaloed, castaway, caught, cemented, chained, cleaving, clinging, close, coherent, cohering, cohesive, confounded, dazed, fast, fastened, firm, fixed, floored, foundered, fuddled, glued, grounded, held, high and dry, holding together, impacted, in a dilemma, in suspense, inextricable, jammed, licked, marooned, moored, muddled, mystified, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, on the rocks, packed, perplexed, puzzled, secure, set, set fast, shipwrecked, sticking, stranded, stuck fast, stumped, swamped, taped, tethered, thrown, tied, tight, transfixed, wedged, wrecked

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈstʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Translations

Adjective

trapped and unable to move

Chinese: 卡 (kǎ) Finnish: jumissa (fi)

Italian: intrappolato (it), bloccato (it) Spanish: atascado (es), atrapado (es), pegado (es)

unable to progress

Finnish: jumissa (fi) Italian: ostruito (it), bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

Spanish: atascado (es)

Verb

past tense

• Dutch: kleefde (nl), kleefden (nl)

past participle

• Dutch: gekleefd (nl)

Anagrams

• tucks