foggy

[fog-ee, faw-gee]

adjective

foggier, foggiest 

1. thick with or having much fog; misty.

   a foggy valley;

   a foggy spring day.

2. covered or enveloped as if with fog.

   a foggy mirror.

3. (of thinking, ideas, etc.) dim or unclear as if obscured by fog; vague.

   I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.

   Synonyms: muddleheaded, muddled, fuzzy, befuddled

4. bewildered; confused.

   Difficulties with memory, concentration, attention, and fatigue left me feeling foggy and muddled much of the time.

5. Photography.,  affected by fog.

foggy

/ ˈfɒɡɪ /

adjective

1. thick with fog

2. obscure or confused

3. another word for fogged

4. no idea whatsoever

   I haven't the foggiest

Other Word Forms

• foggily adverb
• fogginess noun
• unfoggy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of foggy¹

First recorded in 1520–30; fog ² + -y ¹; original sense was “marshy, thick, murky”

Example Sentences

An hour? — before jolting awake at 4 a.m. in a foggy panic.

From Los Angeles Times

On a grey, foggy morning, as a group of mourners have gathered on an Appalachian mountaintop, a woman played by folksinger Hazel Dickens begins to sing.

From Salon

In a text message early that morning, Kawahara told Burns he had awakened to a foggy morning, and he was watching a group of murres, black and white sea birds, fishing near him.

From Los Angeles Times

Here along the foggy bluffs of the Sonoma coast, the edge of the continent feels more like the edge of the world — a window into the future if California does not change course.

From Los Angeles Times

Four crew and 25 passengers were killed when the helicopter, carrying senior security personnel from RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to Fort George near Inverness, went down in foggy conditions over the Mull of Kintyre.

From BBC

Related Words

• cloudy 
• fuzzy 
• misty 
• murky 
• soupy 
• vague