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Synonyms for foggy

30 synonyms
2 antonyms
2 meanings

adjective

Most common

cloudy misty blurry hazy muddled groggy fogged vapory US

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Hazy — confused, befuddled, or vague

hazy, misty, cloudy, blurry, bleary, muddy, fuzzy, blurred, confused, indistinct, nebulous, obscure, turbid, vaporous, opaque, muzzy, brumous formal, murky, vague, dim, ambiguous

2. Groggy

groggy, muddled, dazed, logy, stuporous

Other

fogged, vapory US, vapoury UK, foglike, foggish

Antonyms

clear, clear-eyed

All antonyms of foggy →

Definitions

adj. 1
Confused, befuddled, or vague.
He was still foggy with sleep.
adj. 2
Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.

Related words

Word family: fogginess

Example sentences

cloudy I especially like cloudy skies, why? I don't know.
misty The Misty Mountains are no place for a hobbit.
blurry This photo is too blurry. I can't make out your face.
hazy She felt weary and the world seemed a little hazy.
muddled His English has a murky, muddled sound to it, don't you think?
groggy Tom said that Mary was likely to still be groggy.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
foggy		rising
cloudy		steady
misty		rising
blurry		rising
hazy		rising
muddled		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: dim¹
4 letters: hazy², logy
5 letters: vague¹, muddy², fuzzy², misty², murky², dazed¹, muzzy²
6 letters: cloudy², opaque², blurry², groggy², fogged, bleary², turbid², vapory
7 letters: obscure², blurred¹, muddled², brumous, vapoury, foglike, foggish
8 letters: confused², nebulous³, vaporous
9 letters: ambiguous⁴, stuporous
10 letters: indistinct³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hazy² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: brumeux
Italiano: nebbioso
Español: brumoso
Deutsch: neblig