Meaning of CLAMMY
| Pronunciation: | | 'klamee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" |
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| | Synonyms: | | dank, wet |
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| | Definition: | | \Clam"my\, a. [Compar. {Clammier}; superl. {Clammiest}.]
[Cf. AS. cl[=a]m clay. See {Clam} to clog, and cf. {Clay}.]
Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and
sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a
cold perspiration.
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| | Related Terms: | | adhesive, amylaceous, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, curdled, damp, diaphoretic, doughy, drenched with sweat, foggy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, humid, in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, misty, moist, mucilaginous, muggy, pasty, perspiring, perspiry, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wilted |
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