foggy
foggy
Definition
foggy (fôg′ē, fäg′-)
adjective -·gier, -·gi·est
- full of fog; misty; murky
- dim; blurred; clouded
- confused; perplexed
fog′·gily adverb
fog′·gi·ness noun
foggy
Synonyms
foggy
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The whole was let down by the quality of the CD which tended to make the music sound slightly foggy.
Modifies a noun
- notion: Doctors do not like being asked important questions for which they have not the foggiest notion of an answer.
- weather: On the balcony were two Alarm Bells to warn shipping in foggy weather.
- morning: On a very foggy morning, the Dons started very well!
- night: Sadly the bridge was struck by a ship on a foggy night in 1959.
- brain: My symptoms include a foggy brain, dizziness, a feeling of being unbalanced, as if I'm going to fall over.
- street: Outside the two men walk through the foggy streets.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: It was rather foggy, I had a new-fangled gadget that I had made out of sheet metal to act as a radar reflector.
- very: On a very foggy morning, the Dons started very well!
- too: There's no news articles I want to comment on, and if there were, my head is too foggy.
- so: BR I arrived in England from Guyana in November 1962, it was so foggy.
- not: A lot of cars have their fog lights on when its not foggy, is it legal?
- slightly: The whole was let down by the quality of the CD which tended to make the music sound slightly foggy.
Infinitive complement
- clear: At a local of thomas pakenham foggy to clear a modest victory.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Throughout the day the weather remained foggy with the wind freshening from S.E during the afternoon and the sea rising in consequence.
- become: Some rain and drizzle overnight, becoming foggy with 800m visibility by 0600 UTC.
- get: Yes it gets very foggy around the Solent so i guess you used your GPS and Nav skills to find your PC again!
- go: Every time I try and work it out everything goes foggy... Title: RE: Debbie and Caroline a team?
- seem: My mind seems so foggy sometimes that I can't even think how to spell my surname right for a few seconds.
Preposition: with
- visibility: Some rain and drizzle overnight, becoming foggy with 800m visibility by 0600 UTC.
foggy Quotes
A foggy day in LondonTown Had me low and had me down.
