Clammy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Disagreeably moist, sticky, and cold to the touch: a clammy handshake.
  • adj. Damp and unpleasant: clammy weather.
  • adj. Uneasy; apprehensive: The ghost town gave us a clammy feeling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
  • adj. The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphragmatic nor dry
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Viscous; adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; tenacious.
  • Hence Cold and moist with a sticky feel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unpleasantly cool and humid
  • Equivalent
    wet   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    clammier    clammiest   
    Form
    clamminess   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    glutinous    stick   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Amie    Grammy    Miami    Pammy    Sami    Sammie    Sammy    Tammie    Tammy    Yanomami   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dank    sticky    salty    chilly    sweaty    moist    humid    slimy    sodden    slippery