🇬🇧🇪🇸 soggy - empapado : English Lesson

Meaning of "soggy" ("empapado"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Soggy means something that is unpleasantly wet, soft, and often squishy, like a slice of bread left in water, a pair of shoes soaked in rain, or cereal that’s been sitting in milk for too long. It’s used to describe things that have lost their firmness due to being soaked with water or any liquid.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I left my cereal too long, and now it’s a bowl of soggy sadness.

My shoes were so soggy after the storm, I think I heard a fish in there.

After the water balloon fight, my shirt was soggier than a towel in a bathtub.

I dropped my homework in the puddle, and now it’s just a soggy blob of ink and paper.

My sandwich was so soggy after the rain, it looked like it had gone for a swim.

Rain hit the park. He opened the picnic box: the sandwich was soggy and the bread sagged. His hat lay soggy on the bench, his socks were soggy in wet shoes, the paper map felt soggy in his hands. He laughed at the soggy day, packed up, and ran for warm tea.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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