soggy C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈsɑɡi/ UK /ˈsɒɡi/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj saturated with moisture; heavy and wet The cardboard box went soggy in the rain. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · saturated with moisture;... soddensaturatedwaterloggeddrenchedsoakedsoppingmoist ↔ Opposites dryaridparchedcrisp Word family Derived forms soggilysogginess Etymology AI details From dialectal English sog ('a swamp, marsh; to soak') + -y, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to soak. sog English View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # soggy **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈsɑɡi/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsɒɡi/ ## Meanings 1. saturated with moisture; heavy and wet ## Examples - The cardboard box went soggy in the rain. ## Synonyms - sodden - saturated - waterlogged - drenched - soaked - sopping - moist ## Antonyms - dry - arid - parched - crisp ## Derived Forms - soggily - sogginess ## Roots and Affixes - Root: sog ## Etymology From dialectal English sog ('a swamp, marsh; to soak') + -y, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to soak. ## AI Etymology Soggy comes from dialectal English sog ('a swamp, marsh; to soak') + -y, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to soak. The historical chain includes English sog. The quoted older sense, "a swamp, marsh; to soak," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for soggy. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word soggy carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "saturated with moisture; heavy and wet". English derivatives include soggily and sogginess. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown