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Clammy vs Sopping - What's the difference?

clammy | sopping | Related terms |

Clammy is a related term of sopping.


As adjectives the difference between clammy and sopping

is that clammy is cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms while sopping is soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

As a verb sopping is

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clammy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
    • His hands were clammy from fright
  • (medicine) The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphragmatic nor dry

    • Derived terms

    * clamminess (noun)

    sopping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
    • By now he was sopping wet so there was no point in putting on his hat.

    Verb

    (head)