Miry

Quick meaning: Miry is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.

Example Sentences

Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."

summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]

Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].

Word Forms

• mirier
• miriest

Synonyms for miry

Depending on context, synonyms include boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swampy, quaggy, sloughy, marshy, boggy, muddy.

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