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- Dictionaryclammy/ˈklami/
adjective
- 1. unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch: "his skin felt cold and clammy" Similar Opposite
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adjective. us / ˈklæm·i / Add to word list. slightly wet and cool, in an unpleasant way: Her forehead was hot, but her hands were clammy. (Definition of clammy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of clammy. clammy. Not all of the hand was cold and clammy. From the. Hansard archive.
The meaning of CLAMMY is being damp, soft, sticky, and usually cool. How to use clammy in a sentence.
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.
Definition of 'clammy' clammy. (klæmi ) Word forms: clammier, 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. 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.
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.
Definition of clammy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
(Definition of clammy from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(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:
