| 单词 | muggy |
| 释义 | muggy (once / 17589 pages) adj Think of hot, humid, steamy weather as being so unpleasant that you feel "mugged" by it when you step outside. That's one way to remember the meaning of muggy. "It's not the heat! It's the humidity!" That's what your grandma says when she wants to complain about muggy weather. Muggy means a combination of humidity and heat that makes you sweaty and uncomfortable and long for air-conditioning. You might be cursing the cold and the snow today, but mark my words, come August and the muggy dog days of summer, you'll be nostalgic for the cold. WORD FAMILYmuggy: muggier, muggiest, muggily, mugginess USAGE EXAMPLESThe day was so muggy that there wasn’t a single jogger on the street or a scull crew on the river. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) You guessed it: in the muggy heat of D.C. summer days. Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) It was a muggy July morning; the sky threatened a downpour, but would not deliver. The New Yorker(Aug 15, 2016) adj hot or warm and humid muggy weather Syn steamy, sticky wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
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