foggy

adjective

ˈfȯ-gē How to pronounce foggy (audio)
Definition of foggynext
1
as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension it's pretty foggy outside, so be careful driving home

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2
as in vague
not seen or understood clearly could only see a foggy outline of the intruder in the dark

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Recent Examples of foggy The details of what happened are foggy — some kind of foreign bribery or money-laundering scheme. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025 Laura rolled her eyes from behind the foggy glass panel of the storefront window. — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 In Austin in 2023, a FedEx cargo plane was 200 feet away from crashing into a Southwest Airlines passenger plane, after both were cleared to use the same runway on a foggy day. — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025 At Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda, a shingle oak tree stands in the parkway holding all of its brown and curled leaves on a foggy February day. — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foggy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foggy
  1. hazy
  2. vague
  3. misty
  4. faint
  5. rainy
  6. murky
Adjective
  • Thin lines and hazy glowing colors make the towering, randomized geometric structures look like something from a French comic book.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2025
  • In the late 1970s, Saturn’s odd moon Titan, a hazy orange world, was expecting visitors — first, NASA’s Pioneer 11 probe, then the twin Voyager spacecraft.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of hazy
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  • When breaches do occur, the notifications are often vague or slow to arrive, leaving users unaware of the risks they have been exposed to—and unsure of how to respond effectively.
    — Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But the definition of what constitutes a country for football purposes is slightly vague: the FIFA statutes state that ‘any association which is responsible for organising and supervising football in all of its forms in its country may become a member association’.
    — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of vague
Adjective
  • Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
    — Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Whether in the misty forests of Costa Rica, the savannas of Kenya, or the rugged Highlands of Scotland, this new model of travel offers more than a vacation.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of misty
Adjective
  • My duties typically involved being sent to the nearby New York Public Library to hunt down some faint memory scratching at Carter’s brain.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy's assassination.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of faint
Adjective
  • The fish live in seasonal pools and ponds formed during the rainy season and lay their eggs in the muddy ground.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The beginning of the workweek could be rainy with a 40% chance of precipitation and high near 60.
    — Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of rainy
Adjective
  • The situation here becomes more murky because Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, to investigate Trump’s ties with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Prior to Wednesday’s announcement, the stock had declined more than 50% over the past 12 months as the company’s future became increasingly murky.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of murky

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