muggier; muggiest
: unpleasantly warm and humid
Examples of muggy in a Sentence
a muggy day in August
It's very muggy out today.
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Everyone was tired after a hot and muggy afternoon spent facing one of the NFL’s top teams.
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Chad Graff, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
The saving grace is the water surrounding the city—the breeze off the Bosphorus on a transcontinental ferry ride or a swim in the Sea of Marmara from Istanbul's islands takes the edge off the muggy heat.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
The outside of the quilt is crafted from 100 percent Belgian flax linen, which is crisp and breathable to help regulate your body’s natural temperature, keeping you cool on muggy evenings and toasty warm throughout winter.
—Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
What To Know In a media advisory shared with Newsweek on Wednesday, AccuWeather said cooler air sweeping in and colliding with warm, muggy conditions will spark rounds of severe storms through the week’s end.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
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Chad Graff, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
The saving grace is the water surrounding the city—the breeze off the Bosphorus on a transcontinental ferry ride or a swim in the Sea of Marmara from Istanbul's islands takes the edge off the muggy heat.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2025
The outside of the quilt is crafted from 100 percent Belgian flax linen, which is crisp and breathable to help regulate your body’s natural temperature, keeping you cool on muggy evenings and toasty warm throughout winter.
—Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
What To Know In a media advisory shared with Newsweek on Wednesday, AccuWeather said cooler air sweeping in and colliding with warm, muggy conditions will spark rounds of severe storms through the week’s end.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for muggy
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“Muggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muggy. Accessed 28 Nov. 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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