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Logy

Definition: Logy

Logy

Adjective

1. 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: Logy

Synonyms: dazed (adj), foggy (adj), groggy (adj), stuporous (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Logy

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Logy

Specialty definitions using "logy": pack rollingrole bonding. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Logy

DomainTitle

Books

  • In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Suny Series in Philosophy and Bio Logy) (reference)

  • Making of Latin: An Introduction to Latin, Greek and English Etymo Logy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Logy

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "logy": eco-logy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Logy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

logy

11

logy stop violence

3

delhi logy university

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Logy

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Logy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Dutch700-Modern

log. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Logy

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Logy

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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