dictionary definitions for "soggy"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soggy \Sog"gy\, a. [Compar. Soggier; superl. Soggiest.] [Cf.
     Icel. s["o]ggr damp, wet, or E. soak.]
     Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet;
     as, soggy land or timber.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  soggy
      adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
             foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
             lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
             sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy,
             marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
             sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
      2: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient
         leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy
         mess" [syn: doughy, soggy]
      3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
         worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
         sluggish, soggy, torpid]


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