clammy
About 0.49 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
His hands were clammy from fright.
- adjective The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Similar words
dank wet moist sweaty clam weaky clumse clappy clamlike moisty
Often followed by
skin and sweat hands hand with perspiration as to
Word family
clammier clammiest clammily clamminess clamminesses
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