Synonyms of fogged

fogged 1 of 2

adjective

as in dazed

suffering from mental confusion

a discussion that did little more than leave the participants hopelessly fogged

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dazed
• bewildered
• confused
• distracted
• stunned
• dizzy
• befogged
• addled
• befuddled
• bemused
• silly
• out of it
• pixilated
• raddled
• stupefied
• muzzy
• punch-drunk
• bedeviled
• muddleheaded
• dopey
• mixed-up
• confounded
• addle
• spacey
• at sea
• punchy
• shell-shocked
• unconscious
• bushed
• slaphappy
• zonked
• zonked-out
• addlepated
• spaced-out
• senseless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conscious
• clearheaded
• alert

fogged

2 of 2

verb

past tense of fog

1

as in confused

to make (something) unclear to the understanding

extraneous matters that only serve to fog the central issue

Synonyms & Similar Words

• confused
• clouded
• blurred
• beclouded
• muddied
• complicated
• obfuscated
• disrupted
• befogged
• perplexed
• sophisticated
• snarled
• tangled
• jumbled
• muddled
• upset
• scrambled
• disarranged
• shuffled
• disheveled
• entangled
• disordered
• tousled
• disturbed
• disarrayed
• mixed (up)
• discomposed
• messed (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• illuminated
• clarified
• cleared (up)
• simplified
• streamlined
• unraveled
• straightened (out)
• analyzed
• disentangled
• undid
• deciphered
• decoded
• untangled
• broke down
• unscrambled

2

as in obscured

to make dark, dim, or indistinct

time will fog memories

Synonyms & Similar Words

• obscured
• blurred
• darkened
• clouded
• blackened
• misted
• shrouded
• dimmed
• overshadowed
• hazed
• overcast
• beclouded
• shadowed
• befogged
• bleared
• bedimmed
• concealed
• covered
• overclouded
• obliterated
• shaded
• hid
• eclipsed
• dislimned
• fuzzed (up)
• masked
• screened
• adumbrated
• veiled
• camouflaged
• cloaked
• curtained
• blotted out
• disguised

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• illuminated
• brightened
• lit (up)
• exposed
• revealed
• lightened
• illumined
• uncovered
• unveiled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fogged

Adjective

Drafts, fogged panes and sticking sashes can affect indoor comfort and energy use, while repair costs may add up as problems persist. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

Feminism, the fogged lens through which critics have often viewed her work, is seemingly no more urgent to her than food or fashion—or Star Trek, for that matter, which has inspired several drawings and paintings. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Most importantly, avoid wiping fogged glass with your hand while driving. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 May 2026

Losers often exit the octagon wobbling, smiling, fogged, concussed. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026

Under the thinning clouds, the Gulf was like a fogged mirror. — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026

Every now and then, a car slows to a crawl before pulling over beside the memorial, the people inside sitting silently behind fogged windows, perhaps reminiscing, perhaps praying, perhaps simply trying to make sense of a loss too enormous to truly understand. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 10 May 2026

Ford has strategically placed fogged glass around the windows of the third floor to maintain security, yet still provide just enough transparency to remind people of Ford's history and its mission. — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025

Walking the exhaust-fogged streets of Owerri, Nigeria, Ejimanya, the engineering dean of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, carries with him a department’s worth of communications, some handwritten, others on disk. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025

Verb

My mother takes her glasses off, the lenses fogged, and lays them on the table. — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Cigarette smoke fogged the air, copyboys ran in and out, everyone shouted and no one listened. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

No longer fogged by the haze of a monster dead-cap figure, and the need for middle-market value-hunting. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026

The windows were all fogged up. — David Lyons, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2026

Maroon's memories of her stillborn daughter, rosy and warm, are fogged by the exhaustion of her long labor. — Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026

When my operating eye gets wet, the glass gets fogged up. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025

While Hood said his breathing was restricted, and the plexiglass quickly fogged, air was heard hissing in past the mask's silicone seal. — Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2025