From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cohesive \Co*he"sive\, adjective
1. Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
2. Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
{Cohesive attraction}. See under {Attraction}. -- {Co*he"sive*ly}, adverb -- {Co*he"sive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cohesive
adjective
1: causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"
2: cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "cohesive": adhering, agglutinate, cartilaginous, chewy, cleaving, clinging, coherent, cohering, coriaceous, durable, fibrous, gristly, hard, hardy, holding together, impartible, indiscerptible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indivisible, infrangible, infusible, inseparable, insoluble, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, resistant, ropy, sinewy, sticking, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, stuck, tenacious, tough, tough as leather, undividable, unified, untiring, vigorous, viscid, wiry
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