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Definition of Foggy
1. Adjective. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion).
Similar to: Lethargic, Unenrgetic
Derivative terms: Grogginess, Grogginess, Loginess, Stupor
2. Adjective. Indistinct or hazy in outline. "The trees were just blurry shapes"
Similar to: Indistinct
Derivative terms: Blur, Blurriness, Fog, Fogginess, Fuzziness, Haze, Haziness
3. Adjective. Filled or abounding with fog or mist. "A brumous October morning"
Similar to: Cloudy
Derivative terms: Fog, Fogginess, Haze, Haziness, Mist, Mistiness
4. Adjective. Obscured by fog. "He could barely see through the fogged window"
Definition of Foggy
1. a. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
Definition of Foggy
1. Adjective. Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foggy
1. filled with fog [adj -GIER, -GIEST] : FOGGILY [adv]
Medical Definition of Foggy
1. 1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. 2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. "Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit." (Hayward) Origin: From 4th Fog. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foggy
Literary usage of Foggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"foggy : cloudy and cold : clear : sharp frost at night. 27. Sharp frost: clear:
foggy. 28. Frosty and foggy : clear and frosty : foggy. 29. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THIS foggy JULY MORN Not Hitherto Printed. ... The earth looks strangely young,
and you feel born Anew with it, this foggy July morn. ..."
3. Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History by John Henniker Heaton (1879)
"Off Gellibrand'a Point, 1 white light, revolving, seen ten miles. Visible all
round the compass ; gong sounded in thick or foggy weather ; exhibits bright ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Radiation through a foggy Atmosphere. By ARTHUR SCHUSTER, FRS According to ...
I call a vapour in which scattering plays an appreciable part a ' foggy ..."
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