sweaty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered in sweat or smelling of sweat

   He changed out of his sweaty shirt after the run.

2. 2
   adj

   hot or uncomfortable enough to make people sweat

   The crowd packed into a sweaty basement club.

3. 3
   adj

   wet with condensed moisture, as if sweating

   The cave walls were dark and sweaty in the humid air.

Formed from sweat + -y. The adjective first describes a person or thing covered with sweat and extends naturally to places that cause sweating or surfaces wet with condensed moisture.

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