soggy

Adjective
US[sog-ee]/ˈsɑɡi/2 syllables

Open English WordNet

Adjective (3)soggier, soggiest

  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: boggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysquashyswampywaterloggedOpposite drySimilar wet
  2. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking“the cake fell: it's a doughy mess”Synonyms: doughyOpposite lightSimilar heavy
  3. slow and apathetic“she was fat and inert”“a sluggish worker”“a mind grown torpid in old age”Synonyms: inertsluggishtorpidOpposite activeSimilar inactive
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sog′gy adjective [Compar. Soggier; superlative Soggiest.]

Origin: Cf. Icel. söggr damp, wet, or E. soak.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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