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Definition: Logy |
LogyAdjective1. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "logy" was first used: 1848. (references) |
Synonyms: LogySynonyms: dazed (adj), foggy (adj), groggy (adj), stuporous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dullness | Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Logy |
| Specialty definitions using "logy": pack rolling ♦ role bonding. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "logy": eco-logy. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
logy | 11 |
logy stop violence | 3 |
delhi logy university | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "logy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa qejf (aversely, grudgingly, half-heartedly, loathly, reluctantly, unwillingly), i rënduar (heavy). (various references) | |
Arabic | بليد الحركة. (various references) | |
Czech | hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references) | |
French | apathique. (various references) | |
Greek | βαρύσ (beefy, cumbrous, heavy, hefty, labored, laboured, leaden, lumpish, massive, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, saturnine, stodgy, waterlogged, weighty), νωθρόσ (indolent, laggard, languid, lymphatic, poky, sluggardly, sluggish, stick in the mud). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משעמם (boring, drab, dry, dull, humdrum, monotonous, mundane, tedious, tiresome, uneventful), כב" ת וע" (awkward, clumsy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tompa eszû (hebetate), nehézkes (backward, blunt, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, doltish, dull, fumbling, hulking, laborious, languid, lubber, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, pokey, rugged, slouch, sluggish, stiff, stodgy, stogy, sullen, uneasy). (various references) | |
Italian | logia, ottuso (blunt, dense, dolt, dull, fatwitted, muffled, obtuse, pointless, slow, slow witted, stuffy, thick, witless). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | でっち上' (but, exhausted, fabrication, frame-up, however, lovestruck, put-up job, so, then, trumped-up story, well, well then). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | でれでれ (exhausted, lovestruck), でれっと (exhausted, lovestruck). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogylay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drab, elephantine, gloomy, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, massy, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome). (various references) | |
Russian | тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trom (bovine, heavy-footed, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, leaden, listless, otiose, slow, sluggish, torpid), spor (bovine, contest, controversy, dilatory, laggard, lazy, litigation, poky, quarrel, slow, sluggish, tardy, unhurried), glomazan (bulky, clumsy, cumbersome, gross, lumbering, lumpish, top heavy, unwieldy). (various references) | |
Spanish | torpe (awkward, blockish, blundering, bumbling, butterfingered, butterfingers, clumsy, duffer, dull, dullish, fathead, heavy, labored, laboured, left handed, left-hander, lumberingly, rough, shiftless, slow witted, slowcoach, slowpoke, stodgily, thick, torpid, wall eyed), pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty). (various references) | |
Thai | เฉื่อยชา (comatose, lethargic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тупий (asleep, bat-eyed, blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, doughy, dull, obtuse, opaque, oscitant, pointless, slow witted, wooden, wooden-headed), повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, sulky). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lờ phờ (bloodless, sluggish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | log. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "logy": aerobiology, aerology, aetiology, agrology, algology, amphibology, analogy, anesthesiology, angelology, anthology, anthropology, antilogy, antitechnology, apiology, apology, archaeology, archeology, areology, astrobiology, astrology, audiology, autecology, axiology, bacteriology, balneology, bibliology, biology, biometeorology, biotechnology, bryology, campanology, cardiology, cetology, chronobiology, chronology, climatology, codicology, cohomology, conchology, cosmetology, cosmology, craniology, criminology, cryobiology, cryptology, cryptozoology, cytology, cytotechnology, dactylology, demonology, dendrochronology. (additional references) | |
Words containing "logy": hologynies, hologyny. (additional references) | |
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"Logy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cloogy, clugy, Dlugy, eogy, gogy, hogy, jogy, laggy, lagi, lagy, langy, legoy, leog, lergy, liggy, llog, loagy, loay, loby, Lody, loga, logey, logg, loggy, logi, logid, logit, logsys, logys, loly, lomg, longi, longy, longyd, longyi, lony, Looby, Looey, loog, looga, loogey, looggy, loogi, loogie, loogy, Looy, loozy, lopy, loty, lougy, lovy, Lowy, loxy, lozy, luggy, Lugi, Lugny, lugy, luog, lurgy, Lygo, mogy, ogy, olg, olgy, ooghy, wlog, Zogby. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: goy, log. | |
-2 letters: go, lo, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: glory, godly, golly, loggy, ology. | |
+2 letters: cloggy, eulogy, globby, gloomy, gloppy, glossy, glycol, goggly, goodly, googly, gorily, growly, logily, logway, longly, loungy, oology, otalgy. | |
+3 letters: aglycon, analogy, apology, biology, cloying, coxalgy, dayglow, daylong, ecology, enology, foggily, geology, ghostly, glorify, glowfly, glycols, godlily, goldeye, goofily, goutily, grossly, ignobly, logways, lysogen, myology, neology, orology, otology, ploying, podgily, polygon, roughly, sloughy, soggily, toughly, trilogy, ufology, ungodly, urology, wrongly, yodling, yowling, zoology. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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