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foggy Definition

foggy (fôgē, fäg-)

adjective -·gier, -·gi·est

  1. full of fog; misty; murky
  2. dim; blurred; clouded
  3. confused; perplexed

foggy Related Forms
fog·gily adverb fog·gi·ness noun
foggy Synonyms

foggy

modif.

misty, murky, gray; see hazy 1.

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.

—Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz

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