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Muddy

Muddy Meaning & Definition
Muddy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Muddy?

[adj] dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
[adj] (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
[adj] (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "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"
[adj] (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"
[v] cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
[v] make turbid; "muddy the water"
[v] dirty with mud

Synonyms | Synonyms for Muddy: boggy | cloudy | dingy | dirty | impure | marshy | mirky | miry | mucky | muddied | muddy up | murky | opaque | quaggy | sloughy | soiled | swampy | turbid | unclean | wet

Related Terms | Find terms related to Muddy: achromatic | achromic | addled | amorphous | anemic | ashen | ashy | becloud | bedraggled | befog | befouled | begrime | bemire | bemud | besmirch | besmirched | besmoke | besoil | bespatter | black | bled white | blind | bloodless | blotchy | blur | blurred | boggish | boggy | cadaverous | chloranemic | chuckhole | clear as mud | cloud | cloudy | colorless | conceal | confuse | confused | dark | dead | deadly pale | deathly pale | dim | dimmed | dingy | dirt | dirty | dirty up | discolored | drab | draggled | dull | dungy | dust | dusty | etiolated | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | fade | faded | faint | fallow | feculent | fenny | filthy | flat | fog | foggy | foul | fouled | fuliginous | fuzz | fuzzy | ghastly | gloomy | gray | grime | grimy | grubby | grungy | haggard | hazy | hick town | hide | hueless | hypochromic | impure | indeterminate | indistinct | jerkwater town | lackluster | leaden | livid | lurid | lusterless | make uncertain | marish | marshy | mat | mealy | messy | mire | mirish | miry | misty | mix up | mixed-up | moorish | moory | muck | muck up | mucky | mud | muddle | muddled | mudhole | murky | nasty | nebulous | neutral | obscure | one-horse town | oozy | opaque | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | paludal | paludous | pasty | plashy | poachy | quaggy | quagmiry | rile | riley | roily | sallow | screen | scruffy | shadowy | shapeless | sickly | slabby | slime | slimy | slobby | sloppy | sloshy | sloughy | slovenly | sludgy | slushy | smirch | smirched | smirchy | smoke | smoky | smooch | smudge | smudgy | smutchy | smutty | snuffy | soft | soil | soiled | soily | soot | sooty | sordid | spatter | splashy | sposhy | spouty | squalid | squashy | squelchy | squishy | squushy | subdued | subfusc | swampish | swampy | tallow-faced | tarnish | toneless | transcendent | turbid | uliginous | unclean | uncleanly | unclear | uncolored | unplain | untidy | vague | wan | washed out | washed-out | waxen | weak | whey-faced | whistle-stop | white

See Also | alter | begrime | bemire | blur | change | colly | confuse | dirty | grime | obscure | soil

Muddy In Webster's Dictionary

\Mud"dy\, a. [Compar. {Muddier}; superl. {Muddiest}.] 1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. 2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. 3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. --Shak. 4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. --Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. --Shak. 5. Not clear or bright. --Swift.
\Mud"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muddying}.] 1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid. 2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. --Grew.

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