muggier; muggiest
: being warm, damp, and close
Examples of muggy in a Sentence
a muggy day in August
It's very muggy out today.
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Paul Taylor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
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Through July, 22 states from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast have notched their muggiest start to summer since 1981, when the dataset of dew point temperatures used for CNN’s analysis began.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
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Paul Taylor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Has this summer been muggier than usual?
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Through July, 22 states from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast have notched their muggiest start to summer since 1981, when the dataset of dew point temperatures used for CNN’s analysis began.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
More than 70 million Americans sweated through the muggiest first two months of summer on record as climate change has noticeably dialed up the Eastern United States’ humidity in recent decades, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Muggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muggy. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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muggy
adjective
mug·gy
ˈməg-ē 
muggier; muggiest
: being warm and humid
a muggy day in August
mugginess
noun
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