soggy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sog=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

soggy, a. [Cf. Icel. söggr damp, wet, or E. soak.].

 Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

soggy, adj. (soggier, soggiest) sodden, saturated, dank.

Derivative

soggily adv. sogginess n.

Etymology

dial. sog a swamp

THESAURUS

soggy

awash, bathed, deluged, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded, immersed, inundated, macerated, mucky, muggy, oozing, overflowed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, sticky, submerged, submersed, sultry, swamped, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

ROGET THESAURUS

soggy

Moisture

N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, moist, damp, watery, madid, roric, undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin, saturated, swashy, soggy, dabbled, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, irriguous.