foggy
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1.4
- adjective
- /ˈfɔɡi/
- By the time Johnny launched the dinghy again, the breeze had stopped blowing and the clear sky had grown foggy.
- foggy glass
- foggy night
- foggy window
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Examples
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After a long night, I felt foggy and struggled to concentrate on my work.
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The whole film looks foggy.
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The finger trace on a foggy window.
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I wasn't close enough to tell and besides, it was foggy.
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There was a tattooed shop in the foggy glow, seagulls in the parking lot.
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A damp and foggy pall of silence fell over the once-merry gathering.
Fiction book (1994) -
The water itself was cloudy, awash with dead moths and floating Band-Aids, but nonetheless, in its foggy Byzantine way, also warm-seeming and attractive.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sofa's image of her mother seemed blurred and faded, like a scratchy old photograph, just a foggy image of a dark-haired woman bent over her needlework.
Fiction book (1997) -
The view from the mountain top was foggy, making it hard to see the landscape below.
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The painting had a foggy texture, giving it a dreamlike quality.
Synonyms
77
3.7
Not clear or sharp like a blurred picture
72
3.6
Looks unclear, so you cannot see details
56
4.9
A place that is dark and hard to see because of low light or fog
45
3.9
Not clear because of mist or when you cannot remember it well
30
1.4
Covered with thin cloud near the ground or not clear in memory
29
3.4
Not clear to see or understand, like a photo
13
2.3
Liquid that is not clear and has small particles
9
6.8
Your eyes look blurred and tired because you did not sleep
6
2.7
A dull, unclear color that looks mixed and lifeless
5
2.1
A sky full of clouds that hides the sun
5
3.9
Hard to see through because water covers the glass
5
2.3
Air filled with smoke mixed with fog that is hard to breathe
3
4.1
Having soft dirty marks that make a surface look blurred
2
4.6
Slightly unclear and hard to see or remember
1
7.2
Covered in thick fog that makes it hard to see or travel
1
7.2
Full of mist that makes things look unclear
1
4.4
Covered with smudges or marks that make it look dirty
1
8.2
Misty because tiny drops of water fill the air
1
8.9
Something that looks blurred and hard to see
1
6.8
Covered by fog or steam so it is hard to see through
Misty and wet air that makes it hard to see
Having fog or mist that makes it hard to see
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
4
8.2
A nickname for the United States government office that deals with other countries
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foggy is made of fog ('a low, thick cloud') and the ending -y ('full of'). So something 'foggy' looks unclear or blurred, like a distant mountain or a weak memory.