Word.ws English Dictionary

muggiest

muggiest is the superlative 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 muggiest

What is muggiest the superlative form of?
Muggiest is the superlative form of muggy.

Words near muggiest in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: muggiest (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “muggiest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/muggiest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.