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FOGGY (foggier, foggiest)
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, foggiest Dictionary entry overview: What does foggy mean?
• FOGGY (adjective)
The adjective FOGGY has 4 senses:
1. stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
2. indistinct or hazy in outline
3. filled or abounding with fog or mist
4. obscured by fog
Familiarity information: FOGGY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: foggiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
Synonyms:
dazed; foggy; groggy; logy; stuporous
Similar:
lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Indistinct or hazy in outline
Synonyms:
bleary; blurred; blurry; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; muzzy
Context example:
the trees were just blurry shapes
Similar:
indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)
Derivation:
fog (confusion characterized by lack of clarity)
fogginess (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Filled or abounding with fog or mist
Synonyms:
Context example:
a brumous October morning
Similar:
cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)
Derivation:
fog (droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground)
fogginess (an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Obscured by fog
Synonyms:
fogged; foggy
Context example:
he could barely see through the fogged window
Similar:
opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)
Derivation:
fog (an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance)
fogginess (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)
Context examples
It is a wet, foggy morning in the late spring; a thin, cold rain is falling.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A very foggy night, with great rings round the lamps in the streets!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Over the past week, have you felt faint, dizzy or foggy when you stand up after sitting or lying down?
(MDS-UPDRS - Lightheadedness on Standing, NCI Thesaurus)
It is equally clear that his enemies, lying in wait for him near your door, mistook your husband for him in the foggy morning light.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A poor night’s sleep can leave you feeling foggy and drowsy throughout the day.
(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)
So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Our foggy climate wants help.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And so it was that I found myself that foggy November evening pursuing the Camberwell tram with my heart glowing within me, and with the eager determination that not another day should elapse before I should find some deed which was worthy of my lady.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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