soggy

/ˈsɑgi/

/ˈsɒgi/

Other forms: soggily; soggier; soggiest

Soggy things are extremely wet or very soft and doughy. A soggy washcloth is dripping with water, and your soggy pizza dough sticks to the counter when you try to knead it.

If your dog escapes while you're attempting to give him a bath, you'll have a soggy dog running around your house, and if you hang your laundry on the clothesline before a storm, you'll have a bunch of soggy clothes. The origin of this adjective is mysterious—we know it comes either from sog, meaning "bog or swamp" in an English dialect, or the obsolete verb sog, "become soaked."

Definitions of soggy

1. adjective

   (of soil) soft and watery
   synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

   wet

   covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
2. adjective

   having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking
   synonyms: doughy

   heavy

   of comparatively great physical weight or density
3. adjective

   slow and apathetic
   synonyms: inert, sluggish, torpid

   inactive

   not active physically or mentally