soggy

/'sɔgi/

Thân thiện

The cereal becomes soggy after sitting in milk for too long.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Unpleasantly wet and soft: Describes something that is thoroughly soaked with liquid, often to the point of being heavy, soft, and unappealing.
   • Dull and lacking energy: Can describe something that is slow, apathetic, or lacking in spirit or interest.
   • Doughy and heavy: Describes food, especially baked goods, that are unpleasantly moist and dense due to insufficient cooking or leavening.

Usage Examples

• Describing wetness:
  • The cereal became soggy after sitting in the milk for too long.
  • We had to walk through the soggy field after the heavy rain.
• Describing lack of energy:
  • The team gave a soggy performance in the first half of the match.
• Describing food texture:
  • The bread was soggy in the middle, so I didn't eat it.

Advanced Usage

• "Soggy bottom": A common term in baking, especially for pies or tarts, referring to a pastry base that has become unpleasantly wet and undercooked.
  • The key to a good pie is to avoid a soggy bottom.
• Used metaphorically to describe ideas, stories, or performances that are dull, uninteresting, or lack vitality.
  • The novel's plot was engaging at first but turned soggy in the final chapters.

Variants and Related Words

• Soggily (adverb): In a soggy manner.
  • The paper hung soggily from the fence.
• Sogginess (noun): The state or quality of being soggy.
  • The sogginess of the ground made hiking difficult.

Synonyms

• Sodden: Heavily soaked with liquid.
• Waterlogged: Saturated or filled with water.
• Saturated: Thoroughly soaked.
• Doughy: Having a soft, thick, and wet consistency like dough (for food).
• Boggy: Soft and wet ground; marshy.
• Torpid: Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic (for the sense of lacking energy).

Antonyms

• Dry: Free from moisture or liquid.
• Crisp: Firm, dry, and brittle (often for food).
• Arid: Very dry.
• Energetic: Showing or involving great activity or vitality.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "Soggy with sentiment": Overly emotional in a way that seems weak or insincere.
  • The movie's ending was a bit soggy with sentiment for my taste.
• While not a phrasal verb, the adjective is often used in the phrase "get/become soggy" to describe the process of something absorbing moisture and becoming wet and soft.
  • The crackers will get soggy if you leave the package open.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. slow and apathetic
   • she was fat and inert
   • a sluggish worker
   • a mind grown torpid in old age
2. having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; it's a doughy mess"
   • the cake fell
3. (of soil) soft and watery
   • the ground was boggy under foot
   • a marshy coastline
   • miry roads
   • wet mucky lowland
   • muddy barnyard
   • quaggy terrain
   • the sloughy edge of the pond
   • swampy bayous

Từ đồng nghĩa

• inert
• sluggish
• torpid
• doughy