foggy
/ˈfɒɡi/
foggy adjective: obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
Adjective
foggy (comparative foggier, superlative foggiest)
- Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
- At Esher we were getting out into bright sunshine, and apart from another foggy patch between Farnborough and Winchfield, we had a clear run from then on.1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
- Confused, befuddled, or vague.
- He was still foggy with sleep.
- If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI
- Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
- For they will feed on foggy grass and such like. Also ye shall understand that horses and Cattel may not well be foddered in Winter all together, but […]1680, Leonard Mascall, The government of cattel. Divided into three books, etc, page 221
- […] for as he shuts up his meadow at Christmas, leaves such foggy grass behind, and manures well, in case a wet hot summer succeeds, […]1772, William Ellis, Husbandry, abriged, page 98
foggy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
foggy in Tamil
- மூடுபனியுள்ள
foggy in Urdu
- دھندلا, کہرآلود
foggy in Bengali
- কুয়াশাচ্ছন্ন
foggy in Malayalam
- hazy, misty, smoggy
- മൂടൽമഞ്ഞുള്ള, മൂടൽമഞ്ഞുപൊതിഞ്ഞ, ധൂമികാവൃതമായ, ധൂമികാമയമായ, കൂളൻപുകയുള്ള, കൂഹാച്ഛന്നമായ
- befuddled, muddled, fuddled
- മൂടൽമഞ്ഞു പോലുള്ള, അസ്പഷ്ടമായ, കുഴഞ്ഞ, ബുദ്ധി മയക്കപ്പെട്ട, ചിന്താക്കുഴപ്പം വന്ന, ലെക്കില്ലാതായ
More languagesFewer languages
- foggy in Kannada
- ಮಂಜುಕವಿದ, ಮಂಕಾದ, ಗೊಂದಲಗೊಂಡ, ದಟ್ಟವಾದ ಮಂಜು ಕವಿದ
- foggy in Gujarati
- ધૂંધળું dhū̃dhaḷũ, ઝાંખું jhā̃khũ
- foggy in Sanskrit
- नभ्य nabhya
- foggy in Nepali
- धुँधलो
- foggy in Arabic
- ضَبَابِيّ ḍabābiyy
- foggy in Vietnamese
- có sương mù
Examples of foggy in a sentence
- I don't have the foggiest idea how to get to Piccadilly Circus on the Tube.
- She wasn't going to get the foggiest notion about modern writing from those old books.
- I'm sorry, I haven't the foggiest. You should ask someone else.
Forms of foggy
| comparative | foggier |
|---|---|
| superlative | foggiest |
Origin of foggy
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.
Words formed from foggy
Words that rhyme with foggy
Questions about foggy
- What does foggy mean?
- Foggy means obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
- What is foggy in Tamil?
- Foggy in Tamil is மூடுபனியுள்ள. See Foggy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is foggy?
- Foggy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce foggy?
- Foggy is pronounced /ˈfɒɡi/.
Words near foggy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: foggy (page history and authors); foggy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foggy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foggy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); foggy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); foggy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઝાંખું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); नभ्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); foggy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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