Foggy
['fɒgɪ] or ['fɔɡi]
Definition
(superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
(superl.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
Typist: Ralph
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Misty, hazy.[2]. Confused, dazed, bewildered.
Editor: Xenia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Confused, dazed, absent, stupid, hazy, obscure, misty
ANT:Clear, alive, alert, awake, luminous, lucid, bright, shrewd, sharp
Checked by Bryant
Examples
- Mr. Upton sums it all up very precisely in his remarks upon this period: What has now been made clear by accurate nomenclature was then very foggy in the text-books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The morning of the 12th opened foggy, delaying the start more than half an hour. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My eyes have got foggy-like--please may I sit down, master? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It had been a fine bright day, but had become foggy as the sun dropped, and I had had to feel my way back among the shipping, pretty carefully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is foggy outside, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- BOOK THE THIRD -- A LONG LANE Chapter 1 LODGERS IN QUEER STREET It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A very foggy night, with great rings round the lamps in the streets! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Very foggy, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What would you think of a man who gazed upon a dingy, foggy sunset, and said: What sublimity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Lancelot