Meaning

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
2. Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
3. Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
4. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
5. (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
6. Dirty, filthy.
7. Not clear.
8. Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.

Example Sentences

He slogged across the muddy field.

Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.

It [the cistern] muſt be firmely and cloſely paued vvith clay and mortar, and after dravvne ouer and floored vvith the ſame mortar, to the ende that the vvater be not made muddy or taſt of the earth: […]

[T]he augure, […] is a ſharpe inſtrument of yron made thinne vvith many ſharpe teeth, and ſo ſtriken into holes or muddie banks, vvhere they vvill many times catch a verie great aboundance of Eeles: […]

All theſe Cocytus bounds vvith ſqualid Reeds, / VVith Muddy Ditches, and vvith deadly VVeeds: […]

A long Canal the muddy Fenn divides, / And vvith a clear unſully'd Current glides; […]

I came out of the army like dragging myself muddy out of a swamp. I wandered for a long time before going home to a remembered place I did not love.

When faced with a rockier or muddier section, look ahead for the easiest way across. This might involve hopping from one rock to another, or looking for flat sections or patches of vegetation that might be grippier.

Word Forms

• muddier
• muddiest
• muddies
• muddying
• muddied

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When Should You Use Muddy?

Use muddy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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