Word Study
sweaty
CIDE DICTIONARY
sweaty, a.
- Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. [1913 Webster]"No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams." [1913 Webster]
- Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. Prior. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sweaty, adj. (sweatier, sweatiest)
1 sweating; covered with sweat.
2 causing sweat.
1 sweating; covered with sweat.
2 causing sweat.
Derivative
sweatily adv. sweatiness n.
THESAURUS
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, wiltedFor further exploring for "sweaty" in Webster Dictionary Online