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foggy /ˈfɒɡi /adjective (foggier, foggiest)1Full of or characterized by fog: a dark and foggy night...- It was a quiet, dark night, foggy and drizzling with rain.
- His eyes were still foggy with sleep and his hair was tousled.
- The room was cold and foggy, and it was difficult to see clearly.
Synonyms misty, smoggy, hazy, overcast, murky, gloomy, grey, dark, dim, dingy, dull; smoky, steamy informal soupy British informal fuggy 2Unable to think clearly; confused: she was foggy with sleep...- It gives me a headache and makes me feel foggy and confused for the rest of the day.
- She nearly fell in her decent; her mind mixed in a foggy, blurry, confused mess as she stumbled into the cave.
- The next day I woke up groggily, my brain and eyes still foggy from sleep.
Synonyms muddled, fuddled, befuddled, confused, bewildered, dazed, stupefied, numb, numbed, benumbed, groggy, fuzzy, bleary; dark, dim, hazy, shadowy, cloudy, clouded, blurred, obscure, remote, vague, indistinct, unclear informal dopey, woolly, muzzy, woozy, out of it archaic blear 2.1Indistinctly expressed or remembered; obscure: my memories of the event are foggy...- All was foggy, obscure, clotted over and Lia backed against the wall, drew her knees to her chest and took in a deep breath.
- The next few moments were a haze and Althio could not really remember the events that followed, it was somewhat foggy to him.
- While this is not always true, it does exist here and it adds another layer of foggy, depersonalized confusion as to who and watch we are watching.
Phrases not have the foggiest (idea or notion) Derivatives foggily /ˈfɒɡɪli / adverb ...- Sunday began very foggily but it lifted slowly while I was on the station waiting for the train.
- ‘I've always been here,’ she murmured foggily, pressing a hand to her forehead.
- She rubbed her forehead foggily, trying to get her bearings.
fogginess /ˈfɒɡɪnəs / noun ...- London is one undistinguished mass of soot and fogginess.
- She shook her head to clear the sleepy, fogginess in her head that matched what she had been pulled through.
- The past is so distant, shrouded with the mists of heartbreak and the fogginess of time.
Origin Late 15th century: perhaps from fog2. Rhymes boggy, cloggy, doggy, froggy, groggy, moggie, smoggy, soggy |