muddy
muddy is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
- superlative. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
- superlative. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
- superlative. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
- superlative. Not clear or bright.
- transitive verb. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy.
- verb. make turbid
"muddy the water"
- verb. cause to become muddy
"These data would have muddied the prediction"
- verb. dirty with mud
- adjective. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
"muddy boots"
"a mucky stable"
- adjective. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
"a cloudy liquid"
"muddy coffee"
- adjective. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination
"dirty"
"a dirty (or dingy) white"
- adjective. (of soil) soft and watery
"the ground was boggy under foot"
"a marshy coastline"
Synonyms
mucky, cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid, dingy, dirty, muddied, boggy, marshy, miry, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
Common word forms
muddied, muddier, muddies, muddily, muddiest, muddying
Words from these letters
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