Muggy

3 definitions found

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

  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.
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     2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid;
        sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  muggy
       adj : hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy
             tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: {steamy}, {sticky}]
       [also: {muggiest}, {muggier}]

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

  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