clammy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

clammy
    adj 1: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake";
           "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
           [syn: {clammy}, {dank}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Clammy \Clam"my\, a. [Compar. {Clammier}; superl. {Clammiest}.]
   [Cf. AS. cl[=a]m clay. See {Clam} to clog, and cf. {Clay}.]
   Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and
   sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a
   cold perspiration.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "clammy":
      adhesive, amylaceous, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat,
      clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, curdled, damp, diaphoretic,
      doughy, drenched with sweat, foggy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy,
      gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous,
      gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, humid,
      in a sweat, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, misty, moist,
      mucilaginous, muggy, pasty, perspiring, perspiry, ropy, slabby,
      slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sudatory,
      sudoric, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, syrupy, tacky, tenacious,
      thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose,
      viscous, wet, wet with sweat, wilted