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# clammy

«clammy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unpleasantly damp, cold and sticky to touch, especially skin** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (clammy, clammier, clammiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unpleasantly damp, cold and sticky to touch, especially skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#m1)

2) (weather) Damp and heavy, warm and sticky (clammy air). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows fear or nerves — «clammy hands» before a test or a scary moment. In health and first-aid lessons, clammy pale skin can be a sign that someone is unwell or in shock, so tell an adult. In weather descriptions it means humid. It tells the reader about an unpleasant damp feeling.

### examples

- My hands were clammy before the spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x1)
- The cave walls felt cold and clammy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x2)
- It was a clammy, muggy day in August. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x3)
- His forehead was pale and clammy, so the teacher called the nurse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x4)
- The frog felt clammy in my hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x5)
- Wet socks are horribly clammy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x6)
- I felt it; it felt clammy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/#x7)

### note

Comparative clammier, superlative clammiest. Not the same as «clumsy». In first aid, pale, cold and clammy skin with dizziness can be a warning sign — get an adult or call for help.

### In the corpora

- [The air so clammy and chill, and not an insect in an acre of it!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clammy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clammy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.