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Definition: Foggy |
FoggyAdjective1. Filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning". 2. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion). 3. Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes". 4. Obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "foggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Note: Foggy \Fog"gy\, adjective. [Comparative Foggier; superlative Foggiest.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fog is cloud in contact with the ground. It can form in a number of ways, depending on how the cooling that caused the condensation occurred:
- Radiation fog is formed by the cooling of land after sunset by thermal (infrared) radiation in calm conditions with clear sky. The cool ground then produces condensation in the nearby air by conduction. In perfect calm the fog layer can be less than a metre deep but turbulence can promote a thicker layer. Radiation fog is common in autumn and usually does not last long past sunrise.
- Advection fog occurs when moist air passes over cool ground by advection (wind) and is cooled. This form is most common at sea when tropical air encounters cooler higher-latitude waters. It is also extremely common as a warm front passes over an area with significant snowpack.
- Steam fog is the most localized form and is created by cold air passing over much warmer water. The air is quickly saturated by evaporation and the condensation thus created is seen as wispy steam. Steam fog is most common in polar regions, and around deeper and larger lakes in late autumn and early winter. It is closely related to lake-effect snow and lake-effect rain, and often causes freezing fog, or sometimes hoar frost.
- Precipitation fog (or frontal fog) forms as precipitation falls into drier air below the cloud, the liquid droplets evaporate into water vapour. The water vapour cools and increases the moisture content of the air. As the air saturates below the cloud, fog forms.
- Upslope fog forms when winds blow air up a slope (called orographic lift), adiabatical cooling it as it rises, and causing the moisture in it to condense. This often causes freezing fog on mountaintops, where the [[cloud ceiling would not otherwise be low enough.
- Valley fog forms in mountain valleys, often during winter. It is the result of a temperature inversion caused by heavier cold air settling into the valley, with warmer air passing over the mountains above. It is essentially radiation fog confined by local topology, and can last for several days in calm conditions.
- Ice fog is any kind of fog where the droplets have frozen into extremely tiny crystals of ice in midair. Generally this requires temperatures well below the freezing point, making it common only in and near the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Extremely small amounts of this falling from the sky form a type of precipitation called ice crystals, often reported in Barrow, Alaska.
All types of fog form when the relative humidity reaches 100%, and the air temperature tries to drop below the dewpoint, pushing it lower by forcing the water vapour to condense.
- Freezing fog is when liquid fog droplets freeze to surfaces, forming white rime ice. This is very common on mountaintops which are exposed to low clouds. It is equivalent to freezing rain, and essentially the same as the ice which forms inside a freezer which is not of the "frostless" or "frost-free" type.
Fog reduces visibility. Some vehicles have radar etc., cars have to drive slower and use more lights. Especially dangerous is when fog is very localized, and the driver is caught by surprise.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fog."
Synonyms: FoggySynonyms: bleary (adj), blurred (adj), blurry (adj), brumous (adj), dazed (adj), fogged (adj), fuzzy (adj), groggy (adj), hazy (adj), logy (adj), misty (adj), muzzy (adj), stuporous (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: foggier (geography), mistier (geography). |
Crosswords: Foggy |
| English words defined with "foggy": fog up, Foggily, foglamp ♦ Roky ♦ Westness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "foggy": Circle of Ulloa ♦ Fog-eater ♦ limitação da natalidade ♦ pocket compass, PURSIVE, PURSY ♦ regulação da natalidade. (references) |
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Screenplays | Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) | |
Lyrics | Lazing in the foggy dew (Flaming; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A foggy misty day on the Alaska coast. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A foggy day in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Kayaking on a foggy full moon night. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Boy, does it get foggy around here. I think I saw a cruise ship out there somewhere!. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Leaving Seattle for the working grounds on a foggy April day. PATHFINDER on the left - ______ on the right. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Local piers provide access to recreational fishing for thousands throughout the United States. Here two fishermen are trying for Pacific mackerel off the Newport Pier on a foggy day. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Flowers on a foggy day at Dutchman Peak. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Steams under the Golden Gate Bridge to enter San Francisco Bay, California, on a foggy day in December 1942. She was en route to the Mare Island Navy Yard for battle damage repairs. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Bow-on view, taken off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in foggy conditions on 17 August 1945. Credit: NAVY. |  | Reindeer sled on a foggy morning in Northwest Alaska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Foggy night" by Jason Ernsberger Commentary: "A foggy night." | "Foggy Park" by Eric White Commentary: "Early morning walk, unretouched." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bulletins are confused, the commentaries are foggy. |
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| "Foggy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.60% of the time. "Foggy" is used about 147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.6% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.4% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "foggy": become foggy ♦ foggy Bottom ♦ foggy mind. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "foggy": foggy-brown. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "foggy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i turbulluar (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, blear, bleary, roily), i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i mjegulluar (bedimmed, blear, bleary, hazy, misty, woozy), i mjegullt (hazy, misty, nebulous, vague), i hutuar (abashed, absent, absentminded, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, distracted, dizzy, inadvertent, muddle-headed, perplexed, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, vague), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضب, غير واضح (cloudy, dull, fuzziness, fuzzy, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, nebulous, unclear, vague), ضبابي (fuzziness, hazy, misty, nebulous, sloppy, vaporous). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ssinaattsi (to foggy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | воалиран, объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), мъглив (brumous, damp, dull, hazy, misty, nebulous, thick, vaporous, vapory, vapoury), замъглен (befogged, blear, bleary, filmy, hazy, misted, misty, nebulous, smoky, vapory, vapoury). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雰 (misty), 糢糊 (murky, vague), 有雾. (various references) | |
Czech | mlhavý (dim, hazy, indefinite, misty, nebulous, vague, vapoury). (various references) | |
Danish | taaget (hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Dutch | mistig (fuzzy, misty), heiïg (hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Finnish | sumuinen (misty, nebulous). (various references) | |
French | brumeux. (various references) | |
German | neblig (mistily, misty, nebulous, nebulously). (various references) | |
Greek | ομιχλώδης (misty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעורפל (dim, filmy, fuzzy, hazy, misty, nebulous, shadowy), מהביל (steamy, vaporous), ערפילי (misty, nebulous, vague), אפוף ערפל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ködös (brumous, dirty, faint, hazy, misty, muddy, nebulous, steamy, turbid, woolly), elmosódott (blurred, blurry, faint, slurred, smudgy, washed out). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berkabut (hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Irish | ceomhar, ceoch. (various references) | |
Italian | nebbioso (hazily, hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Korean | 자욱한. (various references) | |
Manx | kayeeagh (hazy, misty, nebulous), froughagh (misty), fo-chay (fogbound, misty), bodjallagh (blear, blear of outline, cloudy, nebulous, overcast). (various references) | |
Norwegian | uklar (dim), tåket, diset. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oggyfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | velado (filmy, wakeful), perplexo (confused, mazy, perplexed, perplexing), obscuro (abstruse, blur, dim, dusk, fameless, hazy, humble, inexplicit, inglorious, misty, mysterious, nameless, obscure, oracular, transcendental, unclear, unnoted), nevoento (vaporous), nebuloso (cloudy, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, hazy, misty, mournful, nebulous, vaporous), enevoado (dark, mirk, misty, murk, somber, sombre), com cerração, brumoso (brumous, hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Romanian | pâclos, obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), neguros (brumous, dark, gloomy, misty), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), ceţos (brumous, dim, dull, filmy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vague, vaporous), brumos (frosty, misty), aburos (hazy, Reeky, steam-engendering, steamy, vaporous, vapoury), înceţoşat (blear, dim, filmy, misty). (various references) | |
Russian | туманный (brumous, cloudy, filmy, fog, hazy, misty, nebulous, turbid, vapoury). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | maglovit (brumous, hazy, misty, muzzy, nebulous, vague). (various references) | |
Spanish | nublado (bleary, cloud-capped, cloudy, overcast). (various references) | |
Swedish | vag (airy, diaphanous, impalpable, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, intangible, loose, obscure, obtuse, vague), suddig (blurred, fuzzy, muzzy, smudgy), dimmigt, dimmig (brumous, dimmish, fuzzy, hazy, misty). (various references) | |
Thai | มีหมอกมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | sisli (gauzy, hazy, misty, thick), sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, stupid, woozy), mahmur (blear-eyed, sleepy), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), dumanlı (hazy, nebulous, Reeky, smoky, thick), dumanaltı, bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, inglorious, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dumanly (misty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | імлистий (moisty), туманний (brumous, damp, delphic, filmy, hazy, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, soupy, turbid, vaporous, vapourish, vapoury), невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mơ hồ (dark, darkly, dubious, indefinable, intangible, problematic, problematical, undefined, vague), không rõ rệt (shadowy, unnoticeable), có sương mù; tối tăm lờ mờ. (various references) | |
Welsh | niwlog (hazy, misty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caliginoso, caligosum, nebulosa, nebulosus, turbidam, turbido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Foggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eogy, faggi, faggy, fagy, fgg, figgy, figie, figy, fogx, Froggit, frogy, fudgy, fugge, fugly, Hoggy, Oggi, roggy, zoggy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "foggy" (pronounced fÄ"gē) |
| 3 | -Ä" g ē | groggy, soggy, Yagi. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-g-o-y" | |
-1 letter: fogy. | |
-2 letters: fog, foy, goy. | |
-3 letters: go, of, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-g-o-y" | |
+1 letter: froggy. | |
+2 letters: foggily. | |
+5 letters: glorifying. | |
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