icky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ick=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

icky, adj. 

•  very bad; repulsive; unpleasant; distasteful.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  sticky; as, icky, sticky goo.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  Overly sentimental; -- of stories or dramas.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

icky, adj. (also ikky) colloq.
1 sweet, sticky, sickly.
2 (as a general term of disapproval) nasty, repulsive.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

icky

bad, barfy, brackish, bum, cheesy, cloying, crappy, creepy, crummy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gloppy, godawful, goshawful, grim, gunky, hairy, high, horrible, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, stinky, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky