CLAMMY (clammier, clammiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: clammier    , clammiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does clammy mean? 

• CLAMMY (adjective)
  The adjective CLAMMY has 1 sense:

1. unpleasantly cool and humid

  Familiarity information: CLAMMY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAMMY (adjective)

Comparative: clammier   
Superlative: clammiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasantly cool and humid

Synonyms:

clammy; dank

Context example:

dank rain forests

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

clamminess (unpleasant wetness)

 Context examples 

Associated signs of hypoperfusion (cool and clammy skin, oliguria, or altered sensorium) or a cardiac index of less than 2.2 L/min/m^(2) are present.

(History of Cardiogenic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)

Your skin may be cold and clammy.

(Fainting, NIH)

Associated signs of hypoperfusion (cool and clammy skin, oliguria, or altered sensorium) or a cardiac index of less than 2.2 L/min/m2 are present.

(Killip Class, NCI Thesaurus)

But oh, what a clammy hand his was! as ghostly to the touch as to the sight!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The blankets were wet and clammy.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Slowly it rose from our souls like the mists from a landscape until peace and reason had returned, and we were sitting upon the grass, wiping our clammy foreheads, and looking with apprehension at each other to mark the last traces of that terrific experience which we had undergone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To add to the difficulties and dangers of the time, masses of sea-fog came drifting inland—white, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I laid her down—for I raised her and supported her on my arm while she drank—I covered her ice-cold and clammy hand with mine: the feeble fingers shrank from my touch—the glazing eyes shunned my gaze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)