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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective foggy has 4 senses
- foggy(s = adj.all) dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous - stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion); Array
- foggy(s = adj.all) bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy - indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" Derived forms noun fog3, noun fogginess2
- foggy(s = adj.all) brumous, hazy, misty - filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" Derived forms noun fog1, noun fogginess1
- foggy(s = adj.all) fogged - obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window" Derived forms noun fog2, noun fogginess2
CIDE DICTIONARY
foggy, a. [From 4th Fog.].
- Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. [1913 Webster]"Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foggy, adj. (foggier, foggiest)
1 (of the atmosphere) thick or obscure with fog.
2 of or like fog.
3 vague, confused, unclear.
1 (of the atmosphere) thick or obscure with fog.
2 of or like fog.
3 vague, confused, unclear.
Idiom
not have the foggiest colloq. have no idea at all.
Derivative
foggily adv. fogginess n.
THESAURUS
foggy
addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, beclouded, befuddled, blear, blear-witted, bleared, bleary, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, dim, disordered, dizzy, faint, feeble, filmy, fogged, fuddlebrained, fuddled, fuzzy, general, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise, in a fog, in a muddle, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconspicuous, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inexact, lax, loose, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddy, muddybrained, murky, mushy, muzzy, nebulous, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, out of focus, pale, pea-soupy, puzzleheaded, random, scramblebrained, semivisible, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, smoggy, soupy, stochastic, sweeping, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, unplain, unrecognizable, unspecified, vague, vaporous, vapory, veiled, weakROGET THESAURUS
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Opacity
N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.Turbidity
N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.
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