muggy

3 definitions found

muggy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Muggy \Mug"gy\ (m[u^]g"g[y^]), a. [Compar. Muggier
     (m[u^]g"g[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Muggiest.] [Cf. Icel. mugga
     mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.]
     1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid;
        sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
        [1913 Webster]

muggy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  muggy
      adj 1: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy
             tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: muggy, steamy,
             sticky]

muggy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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