-logy

4 definitions found

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

  -logy \-lo*gy\suff. [Gr. ?, fr. lo`gos word, discourse, fr.
     le`gein to speak. See {Logic}.]
     A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine,
     theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Logy \Lo"gy\ (l[=o]"g[=e]), a. [From D. log.]
     Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy
     horse; feeling logy. [U.S.]
  
     Syn: sluggish; dull; lethargic.
          [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
                Porcupines are . . . logy, sluggish creatures.
                                                    --C. H.
                                                    Merriam.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  logy
       adj : stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or
             drunkenness or exhaustion) [syn: {dazed}, {foggy}, {groggy},
              {stuporous}]
       [also: {logiest}, {logier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "logy":
     abeyant, apathetic, cataleptic, catatonic, dead, dopey, dormant,
     dull, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, in abeyance, in suspense,
     inactive, inert, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless,
     passive, phlegmatic, sedentary, slack, sleeping, sluggish,
     slumbering, smoldering, stagnant, standing, static, suspended,
     tame, torpid, unaroused