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SOGGY (soggier, soggiest)
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, soggiest Dictionary entry overview: What does soggy mean?
• SOGGY (adjective)
The adjective SOGGY has 3 senses:
1. (of soil) soft and watery
2. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
3. slow and apathetic
Familiarity information: SOGGY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: soggiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of soil) soft and watery
Synonyms:
boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged
Context example:
swampy bayous
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
sogginess (a heavy wetness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
Synonyms:
doughy; soggy
Context example:
the cake fell; it's a doughy mess
Similar:
heavy (of comparatively great physical weight or density)
Derivation:
sogginess (a heavy wetness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Slow and apathetic
Synonyms:
inert; sluggish; soggy; torpid
Context example:
a mind grown torpid in old age
Similar:
inactive (not active physically or mentally)
Context examples
It was wet snow, half rain, and the flakes were large and soggy.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The chase led him across swampy ground in the bottom of the valley, and he came upon footprints in the soggy moss.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The moccasins were in soggy shreds.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He followed the trail of the other man who dragged himself along, and soon came to the end of it—a few fresh-picked bones where the soggy moss was marked by the foot-pads of many wolves.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
This reminded me that I had forgotten to tell my Finn to come back so I drove into West Egg Village to search for her among soggy white-washed alleys and to buy some cups and lemons and flowers.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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