foggy

Other forms of foggy

comparative or superlative

foggier

comparative or superlative

foggiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foggy

What does foggy mean?

foggy means "stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foggy?

foggy has 2 syllables: fog-gy. The stress falls on "fog". In IPA it is /ˈfɑɡi/.

What is another word for foggy?

Close synonyms include dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous, bleary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foggy a common word?

foggy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.