The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Adhesive \Ad*he"sive\, a. [Cf. F. adh['e]sif.]
   1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
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   2. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. --Thomson.
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   Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction.

   Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation
      which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without
      suppuration.

   Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin,
      wax, litharge, and olive oil.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adhesive
    adj 1: tending to adhere [ant: nonadhesive]
    n 1: a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together [syn:
         adhesive material, adhesive agent, adhesive]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

111 Moby Thesaurus words for "adhesive":
   adherent, affixation, amylaceous, annexation, attachment, barnacle,
   binding, birdlime, bond, bramble, brier, bulldog, bulldogged,
   bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, burr, cement, clabbered,
   clammy, clasping, clingy, clotted, coagulated, curdled, decal,
   decalcomania, doughy, fastener, fastening, fish glue, gaumy,
   gelatinous, girding, glairy, glue, gluelike, gluey, gluten,
   glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gum, gumbo,
   gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, gunk, heavy, hooking,
   inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, knot, lashing, leech,
   library paste, ligation, lime, limpet, lute, mastic, molasses,
   mucilage, mucilaginous, obstinate, paste, pasty, persistent,
   plaster, prickle, putty, remora, ropy, rubber cement, sealing wax,
   self-adhesive, size, slabby, slimy, slithery, solder, splice,
   starchy, stickable, sticker, sticking, sticky, stodgy, stringy,
   stubborn, syrup, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, thorn,
   tieing, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous,
   wafer, zipping