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[ fog-ee, faw-gee ] / ˈfɒg i, ˈfɔ gi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR foggy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est.thick with or having much fog; misty: a foggy valley; a foggy spring day. covered or enveloped as if with fog: a foggy mirror. blurred or obscured as if by fog; not clear; vague: I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went. bewildered; perplexed. Photography. affected by fog. Origin of foggyFirst recorded in 1520–30; fog2 + -y1; original sense was “marshy, thick, murky” SYNONYMS FOR foggy3 fuzzy, hazy, dim, murky, muddled. SEE SYNONYMS FOR foggy ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM foggyfog·gi·ly, adverbfog·gi·ness, nounun·fog·gy, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH foggyfoggy , fogyWords nearby foggyfogged, fogger, Foggia, fogging, fog gun, foggy, Foggy Bottom, foghorn, fog lamp, fog level, fog light Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for foggyI splurged on flashlights—one light bulb didn’t seem sufficient for wandering around the foggy forest in the middle of the night. How to hunt for star-nosed moles (and their holes)|Kenneth Catania|September 15, 2020|Popular Science On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs. I Detoxed from Heroin in Jail|Tracey Mitchell|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Do you realize that after six in the evening it fogs over and is foggy at dawn, too? Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens|Jeff Campagna|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST “Its foggy wording and odd locution stand out in the Constitution,” Waldman writes. The True Meaning of the Second Amendment|Malcolm Jones|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included. Kudos to Hillary for Playing the Hitler Card|Michael Tomasky|March 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace. P.J. O’Rourke on Foreign Policy and France, Hold the Swiss|P. J. O’Rourke|January 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST A neighbor of his told me he had seen a flock of fifteen or twenty pigeons on a foggy morning only a few days before. The Passenger Pigeon|Various The ideal night for this is the evening after a hot, sticky day in late summer, the sky overcast and dark but not foggy. The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work|Mary Rogers Miller But it had all been vague, thick, and foggy, whereas now it was all sharp and clean-edged. Doctor Claudius, A True Story|F. Marion Crawford It was foggy nearly all day and rained very hard most of the forenoon. Cyrus W. Field; his Life and Work|Isabella Field Judson The day had been foggy, raw, and cold; and well on in the afternoon it had begun to rain. Tales of Two Countries|Alexander Kielland
British Dictionary definitions for foggy
adjective -gier or -giestthick with fog obscure or confused another word for fogged not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea or not the foggiest notion no idea whatsoeverI haven't the foggiest Derived forms of foggyfoggily, adverbfogginess, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to foggymisty, soupy, murky, cloudy, fuzzy, vague, dark, dim, filmy, gray, indistinct, mushy, nebulous, unclear, vaporous, clouded, smoggy, vapory, blurred, socked in |