foggily
- adverb
- /ˈfɔɡɪli/
:
nebulosamente
- Shooing the horse into the corral with a smack to the rump, he stood foggily at the gate, unable to remember his chore from the previous day.
Examples
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Sometimes they would roll around his living room floor, and she'd grind against him with most of her clothes still on, a policy he remembered, foggily, as "dry-humping."
Fiction book (2001) -
"Ms. Ackerman speaking," Amy foggily corrected her caller.
Fiction book (1999) -
He had on half-glasses bought at a drugstore, and Smith saw him foggily as a god: Charles Bronson as a kitchen god.
Fiction book (1994) -
After waking from a deep sleep, she felt foggily aware of her surroundings, struggling to make sense of everything.
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The details of the meeting were foggily recalled, as he couldn’t remember much after the long night.
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As the fog rolled in, the landscape became foggily obscured, making it hard to see the road ahead.
Synonyms
115
3.9
Not clearly or with few details
23
6.3
Hard to see, hear, or remember clearly
1
8.8
In an unclear way that makes meaning hard to understand
1
4.4
Not clear or hard to understand
1
5.4
In a way that is unclear or blurry
1
7.5
In a dark, unclear way that is hard to see or understand
1
8.0
In a way that is hard to understand or see through
1
7.1
In a rough, incomplete way that lacks detail
In a vague way without clear detail
In a way that is unclear or covered with mud
In a confused and foggy way that makes it hard to think
In a vague and unclear way
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Foggily comes from the simple word fog ('a thick cloud that makes things hard to see') plus the adverb ending -ly. So, to do something foggily is to do it as if you were looking through fog — unclear, vague, or hard to remember.