单词 | foggy |
释义 | foggy (once / 2682 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj Something that's foggy is cloudy or murky, filled with fog. A foggy view is blurred and indistinct, just like a foggy mind. Driving on a foggy road can be tricky, since it's more or less like driving inside a cloud. When the inside of your head feels this way — blurry, clouded, and vague — you can also used foggy in a figurative way: "Her memory grew foggy as the years went by." Experts aren't sure whether foggy or fog came first, but in either case they suspect a Scandinavian root. WORD FAMILYfoggy: foggier, foggiest, foggily, fogginess+/defog: defogging/fog: defog, fogged, fogging, foggy, fogs USAGE EXAMPLESBut somewhere in that foggy “After Ben” timeline we did. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) Discussion of the frequency of a Foggy Christmas seems less common. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) Haldeman, his chief of staff, as they walked along a foggy beach one day. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) 1 1adj filled or abounding with fog or mist Syn brumous, hazy, misty cloudy full of or covered with clouds 2adj obscured by fog 2Syn fogged opaque not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight adj indistinct or hazy in outline 3Syn bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy indistinct not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand adj stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) Syn dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous lethargic, unenrgetic deficient in alertness or activity |
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