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foggy

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fog·gy  (fôg, fg)
adj. fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est
1.
a. Full of or surrounded by fog.
b. Resembling or suggestive of fog.
2. Clouded or blurred by or as if by fog; vague: had only a foggy memory of what happened; hasn't the foggiest idea how to get home.

foggi·ly adv.
foggi·ness n.
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Adj.1.foggy - stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
lethargic, unenrgetic - deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"
2.foggy - indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"
indistinct - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"
3.foggy - filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"
cloudy - full of or covered with clouds; "cloudy skies"
4.foggy - obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window"
opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

foggy
adjective 1. misty, grey, murky, cloudy, obscure, blurred, dim, hazy, nebulous, indistinct, soupy, smoggy, vaporous, brumous (rare) << OPPOSITE clear
Translations
Spanish foggy [ˈfɔgɪ] adj it's foggy → hay niebla
French foggy [ˈfɔgɪ] fog adj it's foggy → il y a du brouillard
German foggy [ˈfɔgɪ] fog adjneb(e)lig
Italian foggy [ˈfɔgɪ] adjnebbioso/a;
it's foggy → c'è nebbia

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It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark.
I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?
That the common people should be rather foggy in their geography, and foggy as to the location of the Indians, is a matter for amusement, maybe, but not of surprise.
 
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