soggy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective (of soil) soft and watery
adjective having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
adjective slow and apathetic

From sog + -y.

If you get wet you'll be soggy and can't walk. — The Patchwork Girl of Oz, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
On the wet, soggy ground he alighted with scarcely a sound. — The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity, Francis Lovell Coombs
Around me, censers were spewing copal smoke into the soggy air. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

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