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Muddy   /mˈədi/   Listen
Muddy

adjective
(compar. muddier; superl. muddiest)
1.
(of soil) soft and watery.  Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged.  "A marshy coastline" , "Miry roads" , "Wet mucky lowland" , "Muddy barnyard" , "Quaggy terrain" , "The sloughy edge of the pond" , "Swampy bayous"
2.
Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck.  Synonym: mucky.  "A mucky stable"
3.
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.  Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddied.  "A dirty (or dingy) white" , "The muddied grey of the sea" , "Muddy colors" , "Dirty-green walls" , "Dirty-blonde hair"
4.
(of liquids) clouded as with sediment.  Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid.  "Muddy coffee" , "Murky waters"
verb
(past & past part. muddied; pres. part. muddying)
1.
Dirty with mud.  Synonym: muddy up.
2.
Cause to become muddy.
3.
Make turbid.



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"Muddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... for him," Scudamore said, "but I am bound to say he does put off all that finicking nonsense when he gets his football jersey on, and plays a good, hard game, and does not seem to mind in the least how muddy or dirty he gets. I should certainly put him in again, Skinner, ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty

... the window-pane It pours and pours, And swift and wide, With a muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars ...
— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... mind of the reader by the preceding chapters should be bathed in the brightest of sunshine, under the bluest of skies, and the horizons should quiver with the blue heat. From now onwards he must imagine grey skies, often streaming rain, and always muddy roads ...
— "Contemptible" • "Casualty"

... Muddy, drizzly, foggy London, London, with its well filled omnibuses tearing along the streets, more dangerous than the chariots of Rome, London, with its bustling thoroughfares, with its traffic blocked at the corners by the raised white gloved hand of the policeman, London, with the four ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr

... tronco trunk. trono throne. tropa troop, soldiery. trozo fragment, piece. tu thou, you. tu thy, your. tubo tube. tumba tomb. tunante rogue. turbacion f. perturbation. turbar to disturb, trouble. turbio turbid, muddy, troubled. turbulento turbid. turno turn. ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon


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