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muggy

/ˈmʌɡi/

muggy adjective: humid, or hot and humid.

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
    • What struck me as the most curious thing about this wonderful river was: how did the air keep fresh? It was muggy and thick, no doubt, but still not sufficiently so to render it bad or even remarkably unpleasant.1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter X, in Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Wet or mouldy.
    • muggy straw
  3. (obsolete, slang) Drunk.

muggy meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

muggy in Hindi

muggy, sticky, oppressive
उमसभरा umasbharā

muggy in Urdu

حبس والا

muggy in Bengali

ভ্যাপসা গরম, আর্দ্র ও উষ্ণ

muggy in Malayalam

sultry, humid, close
വല്ലാത്ത ചൂടും കുമിർച്ചയുമുള്ള, വേവുള്ള, വേവെടുക്കുന്ന, ഈ‍ർപ്പമുള്ള, പ്രക്ലിന്ന, ആർദ്രമായ
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muggy in Kannada
ಮಂಜುಮುಸುಕಿದ, ಮಂಜು ಕವಿದ

Examples of muggy in a sentence

  • The evening, though sunless, had been warm and muggy for the season, and Tess had come out with her milking-hood only, naked-armed and jacketless; certainly not dressed for a drive.1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXIX, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to...
  • Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:

Synonyms of muggy

Antonyms

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Forms of muggy

comparativemuggier
superlativemuggiest

Origin of muggy

From dialectal English mug (“fog, mist; Scotch mist”) + -y, ultimately from Old Norse mugga (“drizzle, mist”); borrowed some time before 1390, when a derived verb, Middle English mugen (“of a fog: to drizzle”), is attested.

Words formed from muggy

Words that rhyme with muggy

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Questions about muggy

What does muggy mean?
Muggy means humid, or hot and humid.
What is muggy in Hindi?
Muggy in Hindi is उमसभरा (umasbharā). See Muggy meaning in Hindi.
How do you use muggy in a sentence?
The evening, though sunless, had been warm and muggy for the season, and Tess had come out with her milking-hood only, naked-armed and jacketless; certainly not dressed for a drive.
What part of speech is muggy?
Muggy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce muggy?
Muggy is pronounced /ˈmʌɡi/.

Words near muggy in the dictionary

  1. Muggridge
  2. Muggridges
  3. Muggs
  4. muggur
  5. muggurs
  6. muggy
  7. Mugh
  8. Mughal
  9. Mughal Empire
  10. Mughal yard
  11. Mughal yards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muggy (page history and authors); उमसभरा (Hindi) (page history and authors); muggy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muggy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muggy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); muggy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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