foggy

[fog-ee, faw-gee] /ˈfɒg i, ˈfɔ gi/
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.
blurred or obscured as if by fog; not clear; vague:
I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.
4.
bewildered; perplexed.
5.
Photography. affected by fog.
Origin
1520-30; fog2 + -y1; orig. meaning marshy, thick, murky
Related forms
foggily, adverb
fogginess, noun
unfoggy, adjective
Can be confused
foggy, fogy.
Synonyms
3. fuzzy, hazy, dim, murky, muddled.
Examples from the web for foggy
  • Bring some warm clothes, since mornings and evenings are often foggy.
  • Depending on where you live, the weather this month can be hot and sunny or cool and foggy.
  • It was that infernal stuff which led to my coming here,-that, and a foggy night.
  • It is as if someone said that there are fairies in the bottom of their garden, but they can only be seen on dark, foggy nights.
  • Landscape of desolate shoreline in the foggy morning light.
  • The foggy night is the visible universe, and the clear day is all the universe- visible and beyond.
  • Imagine that the balloon was foggy until it reached a particular size, then the fog cleared.
  • The view would no doubt have been spectacular, but it was obscured by foggy drizzle.
  • Cloudy, foggy and precipitating days significantly reduce energy production.
  • Lichens and mosses fed by the persistent cool and foggy conditions had grown over everything.
British Dictionary definitions for foggy

fogged

/fɒɡd/
adjective
1.
(photog) affected or obscured by fog

foggy

/ˈfɒɡɪ/
adjective -gier, -giest
1.
thick with fog
2.
obscure or confused
3.
another word for fogged
4.
not the foggiest, not the foggiest idea, not the foggiest notion, no idea whatsoever: I haven't the foggiest
Derived Forms
foggily, adverb
fogginess, noun
Word Origin and History for foggy
adj.

1540s, perhaps from a Scandinavian source, or formed from fog (n.1) + -y (2). Foggy Bottom "U.S. Department of State," from the name of a marshy region of Washington, D.C., where many federal buildings are (also with a suggestion of political murkiness) popularized 1947 by James Reston in "New York Times," but he said it had been used earlier by Edward Folliard of "The Washington Post."