What are some alternative words for sloppy?
Synonyms for sloppy
ˈslɒp i
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Princeton's WordNet
sloppy(adj)
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, carefulsloppy(adj)
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, waterlogged(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"
Synonyms:
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, sloppy(adj)
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, sloppy(adj)
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, sloppy(adj)
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
rank | 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?
There was clearly some forced selling, whether it was forced selling or just stop=losses for large, aggressive hedge funds, it got very sloppy, and you then saw buyers start to emerge. But a lot of those buyers were short-term in nature and took some of their gains around lunchtime. Now we're seeing a second wave of selling.
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.
As a woman and as the wife of a leader, I have to look made up, neat and take care of my appearance. It is also embarrassing for Malaysians when other countries make fun of the sloppy wife of Malaysia's prime minister.
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.
This is exactly the scenario that they said would occur, they were so brazen about it yet so sloppy.
Translations for sloppy
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- недоизкусуренBulgarian
- schlampigGerman
- desprolijoSpanish
- epätarkka, vetinen, väljä, vetelä, huolimatonFinnish
- négligéFrench
- hanyag, felületesHungarian
- cerobohIndonesian
- ぐちゃぐちゃ, だらしない, ずさんJapanese
- hakurara, hakirara, pakirara, hakuhakutai, kūrarirariMāori
- slordigDutch
- niechlujnyPolish
- desleixadoPortuguese
- неря́шливый, сля́котный, свобо́дный, неаккура́тный, небре́жный, мо́крыйRussian
- недбалийUkrainian
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