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Synonyms for muddy
ˈmʌd imud·dy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
muddy
That is obscure which the eye or the mind can not clearly discern or see through, whether because of its own want of transparency, its depth or intricacy, or because of mere defect of light. That which is complicated is likely to be obscure, but that may be obscure which is not at all complicated and scarcely complex, as a muddy pool. In that which is abstruse (Latin abs, from, and trudo, push) as if removed from the usual course of thought or out of the way of apprehension or discovery, the thought is remote, hidden; in that which is obscure there may be nothing to hide; it is hard to see to the bottom of the profound, because of its depth, but the most shallow turbidness is obscure. Compare COMPLEX; DARK; DIFFICULT; MYSTERIOUS.
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Synonyms:
abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, complex, complicated, dark, darksome, deep, dense, difficult, dim, doubtful, dusky, enigmatical, hidden, incomprehensible, indistinct, intricate, involved, mysterious, obscure, profound, turbid, unintelligible
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boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterloggedadjective
(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"
Synonyms:
dingy, miry, waterlogged, spongy, squishy, pulpy, murky, mucky, loose-fitting, haphazard, baggy, sloughy, torpid, inert, sloppy, dirty, turbid, mirky, doughy, spongelike, marshy, sluggish, cloudy, swampy, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddiedmucky, muddyadjective
dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
"muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
Synonyms:
dingy, miry, waterlogged, murky, mucky, sloughy, sloppy, dirty, turbid, mirky, marshy, cloudy, swampy, squashy, quaggy, soggy, boggy, muddieddirty, dingy, muddied, muddyadjective
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
"dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
Synonyms:
filthy, raunchy, marked-up, sloughy, foul, lousy, sordid, sloppy, dismal, dirty, soiled, disconsolate, turbid, grungy, pestiferous, marshy, begrimed, gloomy, blue, muddied, cheating(a), swampy, unclean, mucky, boggy, grimy, dark, grim, miry, soggy, ill-gotten, unsportsmanlike, grubby, unsporting, contaminating, squashy, cloudy, sorry, murky, drab, mirky, dingy, waterlogged, dreary, drear, quaggycloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbidverb
(of liquids) clouded as with sediment
"a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
Synonyms:
dingy, miry, waterlogged, nebulose, mucky, soggy, sloughy, sloppy, nebulous, murky, marshy, dirty, cloudy, muddied, swampy, squashy, quaggy, boggy, mirky, turbidmuddy, muddy upverb
dirty with mud
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muddy upmuddyverb
cause to become muddy
"These data would have muddied the prediction"
Synonyms:
muddy upmuddyverb
make turbid
"muddy the water"
Synonyms:
muddy up
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
muddyadjective
Synonyms:
feculent, turbid, roily, opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#618 | blue | |
#1376 | involved | |
#1543 | deep | |
#1640 | dark | |
#1758 | complex | |
#1928 | difficult | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#2936 | hidden | |
#4328 | dirty | |
#4709 | cloudy | |
#7037 | complicated | |
#9024 | mud | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9718 | foul | |
#9735 | mysterious | |
#9770 | dense | |
#11321 | profound | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#14856 | grim | |
#17795 | ambiguous | |
#18321 | muddy | |
#19359 | filthy | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#20086 | intricate | |
#22327 | sloppy | |
#24941 | lousy | |
#27289 | inert | |
#28256 | raunchy | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#35691 | soiled | |
#37000 | unclean | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#38136 | murky | |
#39077 | incomprehensible | |
#43052 | drab | |
#43640 | baggy | |
#45217 | unintelligible | |
#45530 | dusky | |
#47520 | sordid | |
#50150 | soggy | |
#53820 | silty | |
#58167 | contaminating | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#58851 | haphazard | |
#63955 | squishy | |
#65806 | grubby | |
#67890 | nebulous | |
#67973 | indistinct | |
#68626 | swampy | |
#71849 | spongy | |
#76396 | clayey | |
#82500 | grimy | |
#86167 | grungy | |
#86253 | marshy | |
#87608 | boggy | |
#88701 | turbid | |
#93638 | mucky | |
#95066 | waterlogged | |
#104208 | unsportsmanlike | |
#113745 | abstruse | |
#135003 | muddied | |
#163199 | slapdash | |
#167212 | disconsolate | |
#167639 | pulpy | |
#169244 | drear | |
#188091 | torpid | |
#190598 | unsporting | |
#191801 | doughy | |
#194281 | slipshod | |
#279591 | miry |
How to use muddy in a sentence?
They are archetypal, typical looking sharks like a great reef or bull shark. They sort of look like that but they have tiny little eyes and big broad fins, these are adaption for living in very turbid water. If you have a look where these things live, the visibility is about an inch. It’s completely muddy water.
Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit.
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
Had there been no such school, she would have had to walk two kilometers along a muddy path or take a boat journey during monsoon which may have discouraged her to study.
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