muggy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mug=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

muggy, a. [Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.].

•  Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.  [1913 Webster]
•  Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

muggy, adj. (muggier, muggiest) (of the weather, a day, etc.) oppressively damp and warm; humid.

Derivative

mugginess n.

Etymology

dial. mug mist, drizzle f. ON mugga

THESAURUS

muggy

boggy, clammy, close, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, mucky, oppressive, rainy, roric, roriferous, soggy, steamy, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettish

ROGET THESAURUS

muggy

Dimness

N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.

Opacity

N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.