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sweaty

[swet-ee]

adjective

sweatier, sweatiest 
  1. covered, moist, or stained with sweat.

  2. causing sweat.

  3. laborious.



sweaty

/ ˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. covered with sweat; sweating

  2. smelling of or like sweat

  3. causing sweat

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • sweatiness noun
  • sweatily adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweaty1

First recorded in 1325–75, sweaty is from the Middle English word swety. See sweat, -y 1
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Hotels have become popular among students seeking to avoid sweaty nights in their dormitories, which typically house four to eight people a room and do not have air conditioning.

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I still pictured my son playing pickup games late into the afternoon, sweaty and free in his childhood park.

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Maravilla sends her children to school with hats and a bottle of sunscreen in their lunch boxes — and they still come home red-faced and sweaty during the hottest months.

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Ridley Scott’s first foray into this world operates like a claustrophobic thriller, plying stretches of unsettling quiet with jump scares within a labyrinth of sweating pipes, sweaty humans and darkness.

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Your palms get sweaty, you need a nervous trip to the toilet every five minutes and you can't take your eyes off who the opposition captain is gesturing at to bowl next.

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