States and conditions

Synonyms for clammy

The synonym for clammy recorded in this bank is dank, in the sense "unpleasantly cool and humid". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for clammy

dankadjective, in the sense "unpleasantly cool and humid"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for clammy.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

unpleasantly cool and humid

The cellar felt clammy and cold all year round.

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The true synonym

dank

Same sentence, swapped: The cellar felt dank and cold all year round.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where clammy stands in the sentence above.

pasty
adhesive
gooey

Where clammy turns up in the game

clammy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play clammy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clammy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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