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muggier

muggier is the comparative form of muggy.

Meaning of muggy

Adjective

muggy (comparative muggier, superlative muggiest)

  1. (usually, air) Humid, or hot and humid.
    • The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey—muggy, damp, and drizzly.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Wet or mouldy.
    • muggy straw
  3. (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

Questions about muggier

What is muggier the comparative form of?
Muggier is the comparative form of muggy.

Words near muggier in the dictionary

  1. muggers
  2. muggest
  3. mugget
  4. muggets
  5. muggie
  6. muggier
  7. muggies
  8. muggiest
  9. muggily
  10. mugginess
  11. mugging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muggier (page history and authors); muggy (page history and authors). 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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