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clammiest

clammiest is the superlative form of clammy.

Meaning of clammy

Adjective

clammy (comparative clammier, superlative clammiest)

  1. Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
    • His hands were clammy from fright.
  2. The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.

Questions about clammiest

What is clammiest the superlative form of?
Clammiest is the superlative form of clammy.

Words near clammiest in the dictionary

  1. clammering
  2. clammers
  3. clammersome
  4. clammest
  5. clammier
  6. clammiest
  7. clammily
  8. clamminess
  9. clamming
  10. clamming up
  11. clammish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clammiest (page history and authors); clammy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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