soggy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    mucky; swampy; boggy; quaggy; muddy; marshy; sloughy; sloppy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; it's a doughy mess"
    doughy.
    • the cake fell
  3. adjective satellite slow and apathetic
    sluggish; inert; torpid.
    • she was fat and inert
    • a sluggish worker
    • a mind grown torpid in old age

WordNet


Sog"gy adjective
Etymology
Cf. Icel. söggr damp, wet, or E. soak.
Wordforms
comparative Soggier ; superlative Soggiest
Definitions
  1. Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Webster 1913