baggy | (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: loose-fitting, sloppy |
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bilgy | (adjective) smelling like bilge water | - |
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boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
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(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
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cagy | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, chary |
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(adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, canny, clever |
clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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dingy | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
(adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dirty, muddied, muddy |
dodgy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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(adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dicey |
edgy | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
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foggy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, hazy, misty |
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(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
(adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous |
(adjective) obscured by fog | Synonyms: fogged |
fringy | (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: marginal |
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fuggy | (adjective) (British informal) poorly ventilated | - |
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groggy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous |
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grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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jaggy | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, notched, toothed |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, scraggy |
leggy | (adjective) having long legs | Synonyms: long-legged, long-shanked |
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(adjective) (of plants) having tall spindly stems | Synonyms: tall-growing |
logy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous |
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mangy | (adjective) having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap | Synonyms: mangey |
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mingy | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, miserly, tight |
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muggy | (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: steamy, sticky |
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piggy | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish |
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podgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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pudgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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quaggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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(adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
(adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
scraggy | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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(adjective) having a sharply uneven surface or outline | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy |
sedgy | (adjective) covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants) | - |
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shaggy | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shagged |
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(adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired |
slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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smoggy | (adjective) clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog | - |
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smudgy | (adjective) smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination | - |
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soggy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: doughy |
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(adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, torpid |
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
spongy | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongelike |
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(adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, squashy, squishy |
springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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(adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
stagy | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagey |
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stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
stodgy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stuffy |
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(adjective) heavy and starchy and hard to digest | - |
(adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud |
stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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(adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
(adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
(adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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tangy | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tart |
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twiggy | (adjective) thin as a twig | Synonyms: twiglike |
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