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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sweaty \Sweat"y\, adjective [Compar. {Sweatier}; superl. {Sweatiest}.]
1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. --Swift.
3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. ''The sweaty forge.'' --Prior.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sweaty
adjective: being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" [syn: {perspiring}, {sweating}] [also: {sweatiest}, {sweatier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweaty": ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, diaphoretic, drenched, drenched with sweat, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, sticky, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweating, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, wet, wet with sweat, white-hot, wilted
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