befogged

befogged

adjective

Definition of BEFOGGED

1

filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension <the befogged air of the construction site was so clogged with dust that I starting coughing>

Synonyms beclouded, befogged, brumous, clouded, cloudy, foggy, gauzy, misty, murky, smoggy, soupy

Related Words overcast, rainy, stormy, thick; dirty, miry, mucky, muddy, slimy, slushy, turbid; miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic; smoky (also smokey), smudgy, sooty; filmy, milky, opaque

Near Antonyms bright, clean; clement, fair, sunny, sunshiny; translucent, transparent

Antonyms clear, cloudless, limpid, pellucid, unclouded

2

suffering from mental confusion <became hopelessly befogged after trying to understand the instructions for the latest handheld device>

Synonyms addle, addled, addlepated, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, bushed [chiefly Australian], confounded, confused, dazed, distracted, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, pixilated (also pixillated), punch-drunk, punchy, raddled, shell-shocked, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out (or spaced), spacey (also spacy), stunned, stupefied, zonked, zonked-out

Related Words senseless, unconscious

Near Antonyms alert, conscious

Antonyms clearheaded, unconfused