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sweaty

American  
[swet-ee] / ˈswɛt i /

adjective

sweatier, sweatiest

  1. covered, moist, or stained with sweat.

  2. causing sweat.

  3. laborious.

sweaty British  
/ ˈswɛtɪ /

adjective

  1. covered with sweat; sweating

  2. smelling of or like sweat

  3. causing sweat

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Other Word Forms

  • sweatily adverb
  • sweatiness noun

Etymology

Origin of sweaty

First recorded in 1325–75, sweaty is from the Middle English word swety. See sweat, -y 1

Example Sentences

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Escaping the dirt and sweaty toil of the farm was her goal.

From The Wall Street Journal

A musk ox of his refinement cannot spend the day traipsing up and down, getting his fur all sweaty and unmanageable.

From Literature

Instructors suspected he had failed to change out of his sweaty socks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Everyone wants a photo of you in your hot, sweaty, noisy bald eagle mask.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eager to make himself something more than an awkward kid with sweaty palms and a bowl haircut who couldn’t read, Newsom mimicked Remington Steele, the suave character on the popular 1980s detective show.

From Los Angeles Times

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