soggy

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  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”Synonyms: boggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysquashyswampywaterlogged
  2. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking“the cake fell; it's a doughy mess”Synonyms: doughy
  3. slow and apathetic“she was fat and inert”“a sluggish worker”“a mind grown torpid in old age”Synonyms: inertsluggishtorpid
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Webster's Dictionary (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]
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