Clammy
['klæmɪ] or ['klæmi]
Definition
(adj.) unpleasantly cool and humid; 'a clammy handshake'; 'clammy weather'; 'a dank cellar'; 'dank rain forests' .
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(Compar.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Viscous, glutinous, gummy, viscid, sticky, slimy, ropy, adhesive, dauby, smeary.
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Examples
- My clothes felt wet and clammy and I slapped my arms to keep the circulation going. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The room was still hot, and the marble of the bath still warm; but the face and figure were clammy to the touch. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I had no pretence for my hesitation; and on his repeating his farewell, I clasped his outstretched hand; it was cold and clammy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She was mystified; but when she saw the printed words beneath her signature, she felt a cold, clammy chill run up her spine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But oh, what a clammy hand his was! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The flowers were cold and clammy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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