 muddy |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] (of soil) soft and watery | |
| Synonyms: | boggy marshy mucky quaggy sloughy swampy miry | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | wet | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | |
| Synonyms: | mucky | |
| Examples: | "muddy boots" "a mucky stable" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 3. | [ verb ] cause to become muddy | |
| Examples: | "These data would have muddied the prediction" |
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| Related terms: | confuse | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment | |
| Synonyms: | murky mirky turbid cloudy | |
| Examples: | "a cloudy liquid" "muddy coffee" "murky waters" |
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| Related terms: | opaque | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | |
| Synonyms: | muddied dingy dirty | |
| Examples: | "dirty" is often used in combination "a dirty (or dingy) white" "the muddied gray of the sea" "muddy colors" "dirty-green walls" "dirty-blonde hair" |
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| Related terms: | impure | |
| 6. | [ verb ] dirty with mud | |
| Synonyms: | muddy_up | |
| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 7. | [ verb ] make turbid | |
| Examples: | "muddy the water" |
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| Related terms: | change | |
| Similar spelling: |
Mudd mud mut |
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