FOGGED Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in dazed

suffering from mental confusion a discussion that did little more than leave the participants hopelessly fogged

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fogged

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verb

past tense of fog

as in confused

to make (something) unclear to the understanding extraneous matters that only serve to fog the central issue

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as in obscured

to make dark, dim, or indistinct time will fog memories

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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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fogged

Adjective

But the man simply stood there with a dazed expression on his face, swaying gently in the living room of their small, cramped flat, like a lone tree in the breeze.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Laiken Randolph appeared dazed, and possibly on drugs, officers remarked.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of dazed

Verb

The Barnes & Noble—a wide, flat building in gray brick—was obscured by an enormous construction crane.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
What resonated most for me, though, was witnessing conversations where depth of understanding unveiled perspectives previously obscured.

— Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscured

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What appears before the bewildered trio is a boy with a face resembling a frog’s, named Fūsuke.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
But Iñárritu’s caricatures become people in a way Kubrick’s don’t; as the bewildered President, for example, John Goodman is simultaneously grounded and theatrical in his presentation, recalling his best work with the Coen brothers.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of bewildered

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Sube Shoten, a tofu maker founded in 1877 during Japan’s Meiji era, reportedly ceased operations in May and began preparing to file for bankruptcy as low profit margins and a recent surge in raw-material costs clouded its business outlook.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
The sky had clouded in the meantime, deleting the circle from the wall—she’d arrived just in time to witness it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of clouded

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Menon's photo reveals spectacular pink, purple and red auroras glowing in Earth's upper atmosphere above a sparse dappling of city lights, subtly blurred by the motion of the orbital spacecraft over the course of the exposure.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
But as the spectacle grew, the distinction between personal style and dressing for visibility became increasingly blurred.

— Alex Badia, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of blurred

Adjective

Her freakish smile strikes a sharp contrast with Ursula’s more distracted gaze.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
The proprietary clipguard technology that comes with it drastically reduces distortion and a internal pop filter to prevent plosive breath noise so listeners aren't distracted.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of distracted

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His chubby forehead was creased, and a sort of hunted look darkened his eyes.

— Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
In its latest incarnation, designed by the firm S9, the curtain wall has darkened and the electronic billboards brightened, so that the tower resembles a TV mount, more apparatus than architecture.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026

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