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foggy - 3 dictionary results

fog⋅gy

[fog-ee, faw-gee]
–adjective, -gi⋅er, -gi⋅est.
1. thick with or having much fog; misty: a foggy valley; a foggy spring day.
2. covered or enveloped as if with fog: a foggy mirror.
3. blurred or obscured as if by fog; not clear; vague: I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.
4. bewildered; perplexed.
5. Photography. affected by fog.

Origin:
1520–30; fog 2 + -y 1 ; orig. meaning marshy, thick, murky


fog⋅gi⋅ly, adverb
fog⋅gi⋅ness, noun


3. fuzzy, hazy, dim, murky, muddled.
fog·gy   (fô'gē, fŏg'ē)   
adj.   fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est
    1. Full of or surrounded by fog.
    2. Resembling or suggestive of fog.
  1. Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague: had only a foggy memory of what happened; hasn't the foggiest idea how to get home.
fog'gi·ly adv., fog'gi·ness n.

Foggy

Fog"gy\, a. [Compar. Foggier; superl. Foggiest.] [From 4th Fog.]

1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. --Shak.

2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. --Hayward.
Language Translation for : foggy
Spanish: nebuloso, brumoso, de niebla,
German: nebelig,
Japanese: 霧のかかった
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