STUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stuck mean? 

• STUCK (adjective)
  The adjective STUCK has 2 senses:

1. caught or fixed

2. baffled

  Familiarity information: STUCK used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUCK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caught or fixed

Context example:

stuck in the mud

Similar:

cragfast (stranded on or as if on a crag)

Antonym:

unstuck (free)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Baffled

Context example:

this problem has me completely stuck

Similar:

perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

It is also used to keep bacteria from forming a biofilm (thin layer stuck to a surface).

(Edetic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The latter point I achieved at great personal inconvenience; but I stuck to it, because I felt it was a grown-up sort of thing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Researchers found that, instead, these responses may depend greatly on whether a protein encoded by the Shisa7 gene is stuck to GABAA receptors.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

"The planet got stuck being a sub-Neptune," said Benneke.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

How else could he come by his broken bones, and how could he have been stuck through by these canes with their points so high above our heads?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By George, gentlemen, our balls just stuck in her timbers like stones in a mud wall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A foreign body is something that is stuck inside you but isn't supposed to be there.

(Foreign Bodies, NIH)

However, chemotherapeutic drugs or environmental chemicals sometimes block the protein’s DNA-retying ability, so that TOP2 remains stuck on DNA.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

Having travelled about three miles, we came to a long kind of building, made of timber stuck in the ground, and wattled across; the roof was low and covered with straw.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Don’t become overly stuck on those days, though.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)