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adjective
- 1. unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch: "his skin felt cold and clammy" Similar Opposite
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sticky and slightly wet in an unpleasant way: My hands felt all clammy. It was a hot, clammy day. Synonym. dank. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. having moisture in the air. humid It gets so humid in this part of the country. muggy What a muggy day!
1. : being damp, soft, sticky, and usually cool. cold clammy hands. clammy air. 2. : lacking normal human warmth. the clammy atmosphere of an institution. clammily. ˈkla-mə-lē. adverb. clamminess. ˈkla-mē-nəs. noun. Synonyms. antiseptic. arctic. brittle. chilly. cold-blooded. cold-eyed. coldish. cool. frigid. frosty. frozen. gelid. glacial.
adjective. us / ˈklæm.i / uk / ˈklæm.i / Add to word list. sticky and slightly wet in an unpleasant way: My hands felt all clammy. It was a hot, clammy day. Synonym. dank. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. having moisture in the air. humid It gets so humid in this part of the country. muggy What a muggy day!
Clammy definition: covered with a cold, sticky moisture; cold and damp. See examples of CLAMMY used in a sentence.
Clammy means unpleasantly cool and slimy to the touch. It has nothing to do with those tasty little sea creatures, but they too are pretty slimy. Nine times out of ten the thing described as clammy is a hand or forehead, usually of someone who's pretty sick or just physically unpleasant. When Dickens' David Copperfield shakes the hand of the ...
Definition of 'clammy' Word Frequency. clammy. (klæmi ) Word forms: comparative clammier, superlative clammiest. adjective. Something that is clammy is unpleasantly damp or sticky. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist! My shirt was clammy with sweat. [ + with] Synonyms: moist, sweating, damp, sticky More Synonyms of clammy.
1. Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake. 2. Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather. 3. Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling. [Middle English, sticky, probably from clam (from Old English, mud, clay) or from Middle Low German klam, stickiness .] clam′mi·ly adv. clam′mi·ness n.
Definition of clammy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(medicine) The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphragmatic nor dry. Wiktionary. Synonyms: dank. perspiry. sticky. moist. damp. cool. slimy. Antonyms: dry. Other Word Forms of Clammy. Adjective. Base Form:
clammy meaning, definition, what is clammy: feeling unpleasantly wet, cold, and stic...: Learn more.
