Clammy \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
clammy
adj : unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy
weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: dank]
[also: clammiest, clammier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "clammy":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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