adj
Meaning 1
Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- His hands were clammy from fright.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
clammy
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Pronunciation
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/ˈklæmi/
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rhymes with -æmi
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CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
unpleasantly cool and humid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a clammy handshake
- clammy weather
- a dank cellar
- dank rain forests
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dank
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English clam (“viscous, sticky; slimy”) + -y, from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Compare German klamm (“clammy”) and klemmen (“to be stuck, stick”). See also clam.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: студен и влажен (studen i vlažen) — Cold and damp
- Finnish: nihkeä — Cold and damp
- French: moite — Cold and damp
- German: klamm — Cold and damp
- Japanese: じめじめ — Cold and damp
- Māori: kūpiapia — Cold and damp
- Māori: haumotu — Cold and damp
- Norwegian Bokmål: klam — Cold and damp
- Norwegian Bokmål: fuktig — Cold and damp
- Plautdietsch: feicht — Cold and damp
- Russian: холо́дный и вла́жный (xolódnyj) — Cold and damp
- Serbo-Croatian: hladno i vlažno — Cold and damp