foggy

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
  2. adjective indistinct or hazy in outline
  3. adjective filled or abounding with fog or mist

Etymology

From fog + -y, originally in the sense "covered with tall grass; marshy; thick". It is not clear whether fog (“mist”) is a back-formation from foggy (“covered with tall, obscuring grass”) or has a separate Germanic origin, and hence whether foggy (“covered with tall grass”) and foggy (“obscured by mist”) represent one word or two. See fog ("mist"; "tall grass") for more.

In classic literature

Synonyms

dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous

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