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foggy

adj · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈfɒɡi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒɡi
  • CMU ARPABET: F AA1 G IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Confused, befuddled, or vague.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

Examples

  • He was still foggy with sleep.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

obscured by fog

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he could barely see through the fogged window

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fogged

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

filled or abounding with fog or mist

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a brumous October morning

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: brumous, hazy, misty

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

indistinct or hazy in outline

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a landscape of blurred outlines
  • the trees were just blurry shapes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From fog + -y, originally in the sense "covered with tall grass; marshy; thick". It is not clear whether fog (“mist”) is a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall, obscuring grass”) or has a separate Germanic origin, and hence whether foggy (“covered with tall grass”) and foggy (“obscured by mist”) represent one word or two. See fog ("mist"; "tall grass") for more.

Across languages

Translations

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ضَبَابِيّ (ḍabābiyy) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Azerbaijani: dumanlı — obscured by mist or fog
  • Belarusian: тума́нны (tumánny) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Bulgarian: мъглив (mǎgliv) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Bulgarian: замъглен (zamǎglen) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Catalan: emboirat — obscured by mist or fog
  • Chechen: дохка (doxka) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Czech: mlhavý — obscured by mist or fog
  • Czech: mlžný — obscured by mist or fog
  • Danish: tåget — obscured by mist or fog
  • Dutch: mistig — obscured by mist or fog
  • Dutch: nevelig — obscured by mist or fog
  • Esperanto: nebula — obscured by mist or fog
  • Estonian: udune — obscured by mist or fog
  • Finnish: sumuinen — obscured by mist or fog
  • Finnish: utuinen — obscured by mist or fog
  • French: brumeux — obscured by mist or fog
  • Galician: bretemoso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Georgian: ნისლიანი (nisliani) — obscured by mist or fog
  • German: neblig — obscured by mist or fog
  • German: diesig — obscured by mist or fog
  • Greek: ομιχλώδης (omichlódis) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Hungarian: ködös — obscured by mist or fog
  • Hunsrik: newlich — obscured by mist or fog
  • Irish: ceomhar — obscured by mist or fog
  • Italian: nebbioso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Lao: ມີຫມອກ (mī mǭk) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Latin: nebulōsus — obscured by mist or fog
  • Latvian: miglains — obscured by mist or fog
  • Lithuanian: miglotas — obscured by mist or fog
  • Luxembourgish: niwweleg — obscured by mist or fog
  • Macedonian: ма́глив (mágliv) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Macedonian: за́маглен (zámaglen) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Māori: kōehuehu — obscured by mist or fog
  • Navajo: áhí bee chahałheeł — obscured by mist or fog
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tåkete — obscured by mist or fog
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tåket — obscured by mist or fog
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tåkete — obscured by mist or fog
  • Polish: mglisty — obscured by mist or fog
  • Portuguese: enevoado — obscured by mist or fog
  • Portuguese: nublado — obscured by mist or fog
  • Romanian: încețat — obscured by mist or fog
  • Russian: тума́нный (tumánnyj) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Russian: сму́тный (smútnyj) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Russian: мгли́стый (mglístyj) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Serbo-Croatian: магловит — obscured by mist or fog
  • Serbo-Croatian: maglovit — obscured by mist or fog
  • Slovak: hmlistý — obscured by mist or fog
  • Slovene: meglen — obscured by mist or fog
  • Spanish: brumoso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Spanish: nebuloso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Spanish: neblinoso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Spanish: emboriado — obscured by mist or fog
  • Spanish: caliginoso — obscured by mist or fog
  • Swedish: dimmig — obscured by mist or fog
  • Swedish: disig — obscured by mist or fog
  • Turkish: sisli — obscured by mist or fog
  • Ukrainian: тума́нний (tumánnyj) — obscured by mist or fog
  • Uzbek: tumanli — obscured by mist or fog
  • Vietnamese: có sương mù — obscured by mist or fog
  • Welsh: niwlog — obscured by mist or fog
  • French: embrumé — confused
  • French: engourdi — confused
  • Spanish: nebuloso — confused
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