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View synonyms for smoggy

smoggy

[ smog-ee, smaw-gee ]

adjective

, smog·gi·er, smog·gi·est.
  1. full of or characterized by smog.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of smoggy1

First recorded in 1925–30; smog + -y 1
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Example Sentences

But now, that cancer-inducing complex has given way to something completely different: green space that has brought a breath of fresh air to Bangkok’s congested, often smoggy center.

The downside of rapid expansion of logging, mining and other resource extraction has been razing of rainforests, pollution of coastal waters and waterways and smoggy cities.

With days of more pollutants building up close to the ground, then the smoggy layer became toxic and very dense.

From BBC

But, on smoggy summer days, when the majestic vista of the Santa Monica Mountains looks like a half-developed photograph, it proves we still have a ways to go.

The cause, of course, is a smoggy blanket of fumes from wildfires in Canada that have been drifting south, muting the sun and tinting the sky a foreboding apricot hue.

From Salon

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