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Synonyms for sloppy
ˈslɒp islop·py
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Princeton's WordNet
sloppyadjective
lacking neatness or order
"a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
Synonyms:
miry, waterlogged, mucky, loose-fitting, baggy, sloughy, swampy, marshy, haphazard, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddyAntonyms:
dry, unemotional, tidy, tight, carefulsloppyadjective
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
"a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
Synonyms:
miry, waterlogged, mucky, loose-fitting, baggy, sloughy, swampy, marshy, haphazard, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddyAntonyms:
unemotional, tidy, dry, tight, carefulboggy, 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"
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dingy, miry, waterlogged, spongy, squishy, pulpy, murky, mucky, loose-fitting, haphazard, baggy, sloughy, torpid, inert, dirty, turbid, mirky, doughy, spongelike, marshy, sluggish, cloudy, swampy, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddy, muddiedAntonyms:
dry, tight, unemotional, tidy, carefulbaggy, loose-fitting, sloppyadjective
not fitting closely; hanging loosely
"baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
Synonyms:
miry, waterlogged, mucky, loose-fitting, haphazard, baggy, sloughy, marshy, swampy, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddyAntonyms:
tight, careful, dry, unemotional, tidyoveremotional, sloppyadjective
excessively or abnormally emotional
Synonyms:
miry, waterlogged, mucky, loose-fitting, baggy, sloughy, swampy, marshy, haphazard, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddyAntonyms:
careful, tight, dry, tidy, unemotionalhaphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppyadjective
marked by great carelessness
"a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
Synonyms:
miry, waterlogged, mucky, loose-fitting, baggy, sloughy, swampy, marshy, squashy, hit-or-miss, haphazard, slapdash, soggy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, boggy, muddyAntonyms:
dry, careful, tight, tidy, unemotional
Editors Contribution
soggy
the thick, soggy mass of fallen leaves
Submitted by Cindrella on August 26, 2019
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sloppy":
careless, negligent, disordered, sentimental, neglectful, disorderly, muddy, clumsy, messy
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4328 | dirty | |
#4709 | cloudy | |
#14281 | messy | |
#18321 | muddy | |
#22327 | sloppy | |
#24701 | sentimental | |
#24888 | careless | |
#25698 | negligent | |
#27289 | inert | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#34500 | disordered | |
#38136 | murky | |
#39319 | disorderly | |
#43640 | baggy | |
#50150 | soggy | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#58851 | haphazard | |
#63955 | squishy | |
#68626 | swampy | |
#71849 | spongy | |
#86253 | marshy | |
#87608 | boggy | |
#88701 | turbid | |
#93638 | mucky | |
#95066 | waterlogged | |
#120040 | neglectful | |
#135003 | muddied | |
#163199 | slapdash | |
#167639 | pulpy | |
#188091 | torpid | |
#191801 | doughy | |
#194281 | slipshod | |
#279591 | miry |
How to use sloppy in a sentence?
Superintendent Michael Harrison:
I am extremely disgusted and outraged by the lack of professionalism and integrity shown by this officer, this is an example of sloppy police work with a clear intent to cover it up, and it will not stand.
Even though the market closed up on Friday, more stocks were lower for the week and that points to weakness, we could see some sloppy action for the next couple of sessions.
What gives us pause about this attack is that while the others were haphazard and sloppy ... the size of this explosion suggests something more sophisticated, that would suggest organisation beyond a lone wolf cooking up something in their kitchen.
In the year 2015 we shouldn’t be talking about using pool rifles, the entire point of patrol rifles is to have a precision weapon system. Pooled rifles are a sloppy way to do business and dangerous to bystanders.
Sloppy Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom Sloppy Steve helped write phony books.
Translations for sloppy
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- недоизкусуренBulgarian
- schlampigGerman
- desprolijoSpanish
- huolimaton, epätarkka, vetelä, väljä, vetinenFinnish
- négligéFrench
- hanyag, felületesHungarian
- cerobohIndonesian
- ずさん, ぐちゃぐちゃ, だらしないJapanese
- kūrarirari, pakirara, hakuhakutai, hakirara, hakuraraMāori
- slordigDutch
- niechlujnyPolish
- desleixadoPortuguese
- неаккура́тный, неря́шливый, небре́жный, мо́крый, свобо́дный, сля́котныйRussian
- недбалийUkrainian
- luộm thuộmVietnamese
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