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SMOGGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoggy mean? 

SMOGGY (adjective)
  The adjective SMOGGY has 1 sense:

1. clouded with a mixture of smoke and fogplay

  Familiarity information: SMOGGY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SMOGGY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: smoggier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: smoggiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog

Context example:

the smoggy atmosphere of Los Angeles

Similar:

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

Derivation:

smog; smogginess (air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog)


 Context examples 


The idea is that if the experiment starts with the right gases and under the right conditions, the reactions in the lab should yield the same products found in Titan’s smoggy atmosphere.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified material discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in the moon’s smoggy haze.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)



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