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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective muggy has 1 sense
- muggy(s = adj.all) steamy, sticky - hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" Derived form noun mugginess1
CIDE DICTIONARY
muggy, a. [Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.].
- Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw. [1913 Webster]
- Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
muggy, adj. (muggier, muggiest) (of the weather, a day, etc.) oppressively damp and warm; humid.
Derivative
mugginess n.
Etymology
dial. mug mist, drizzle f. ON mugga
THESAURUS
muggy
boggy, clammy, close, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, mucky, oppressive, rainy, roric, roriferous, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettishROGET THESAURUS
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Dimness
N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.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.
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