smog
/smɒɡ/US/smɑɡ/
smog noun: a noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
Noun
smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)
- A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
- A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times
- Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145
- Synonyms:
- pea-souper, pea-soup fog
Verb
smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)
- To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
- If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.
smog meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
smog in Tamil
- நச்சுக்காற்று, பனிப்புகை
smog in Urdu
- اسموگ, سموگ
smog in Bengali
- smog
- ধোঁয়াশা dhō̃ẇaśa
smog in Malayalam
- urban air pollution
- പുകമഞ്ഞ് pukamaññŭ
More languagesFewer languages
- smog in Kannada
- ಹೊಗೆಯಿಬ್ಬನಿ, ಧೂಮ ಕವಿದ ಮಂಜು, ಹೊಂಜು
- smog in Tagalog
- ulop
- smog in Arabic
- ضُبْخَان ḍubḵān, الضَّبَاب الدُّخَانِيّ aḍ-ḍabāb ad-duḵāniyy
- smog in Indonesian
- asbut, asap-kabut, kabut asap
- smog in Persian
- مه دود meh-dud
Examples of smog in a sentence
- It's somewhat ironic to have a wave of smog right on Earth Day.
- I meant to take the car in for a smog check, but it slipped my mind.
- Pollution can congest the city’s streets with smog.
Synonyms of smog
Forms of smog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | smogs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | smogs |
| present participle | smogging |
| past participle | smogged |
| past | smogged |
Origin of smog
Blend of smoke + fog.
Words formed from smog
Phrases with smog
Words that rhyme with smog
Questions about smog
- What does smog mean?
- Smog means a noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
- What is smog in Tamil?
- Smog in Tamil is நச்சுக்காற்று, பனிப்புகை. See Smog meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is smog?
- Smog can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce smog?
- Smog is pronounced /smɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of smog?
- The plural of smog is smogs.
Words near smog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: smog (page history and authors); smog (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smog (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ধোঁয়াশা (Bengali) (page history and authors); smog (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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