Nouns (0)
Verbs (3)
muddy
v. make turbid; "muddy the water"
muddy
v. cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
muddy up
v. dirty with mud
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (11)
mucky
adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
murky, cloudy, turbid
adj. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
mucky, boggy, marshy, miry, quaggy, sloughy, swampy
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"
Fuzzynyms (66)
roil, rile
v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
overcast, cloud
v. make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"
foul, defile, befoul, maculate
v. spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
careless, sloppy
adj. lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
unclear
adj. not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"
fuzzy, foggy, muzzy, bleary, blurred, blurry
adj. indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"
faint, dim, shadowy, wispy, wraith-like
adj. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
oblique, obscure, elliptic
adj. marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
obscure, enigmatic, oracular
adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
cloudy, hazy, misty, nebulous, nebulose
adj. lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
dull
adj. emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
ambiguous, equivocal
adj. open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
disconnected, confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected
adj. lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
unintelligible
adj. poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"
wooly, woolly, unclear, addled, befogged, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, wooly-minded, woolly-minded, wooly-headed
adj. confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
dirty, ill-gotten
adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
Synonyms (79)
Augean
adj. extremely filthy from long neglect
bedraggled, draggled
adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
befouled
adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy
adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
bespattered, spattered, splashed
adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"
buggy
adj. infested with bugs
dusty
adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
fecal, feculent, faecal
adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
foul, filthy, nasty
adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
flyblown, squalid, sordid
adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
lousy
adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
maggoty
adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
scummy
adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
snotty, snot-nosed
adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"
travel-soiled, travel-stained
adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"
unwashed
adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"
fogged, foggy
adj. obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window"
frosted
adj. (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass"
glaucous
adj. having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"
solid, impenetrable
adj. incapable of being seen through; "solid blackness"
milk, whitish, milky
adj. resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milky glass"
radiopaque
adj. not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation; "barium sulfate is radiopaque"
bedewed, dewy
adj. wet with dew
besprent, sprinkled
adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"
clammy, dank, humid
adj. unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
damp, dampish, moist
adj. slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"
dripping
adj. having liquid falling in drops; "in the dripping fog"; "the scene where he is singing in the rain in dripping clothes"; "there was little shelter under the dripping trees"
misty, drizzling, drizzly, misting
adj. (wet)
hydrated, hydrous
adj. containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)
sticky, sultry, humid, muggy, steamy
adj. hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather"
perspiring, sweaty
adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"
reeking
adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"
rainy, showery
adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"
soggy, 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"
sticky
adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"
tacky, undried
adj. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish"
watery
adj. filled with water; "watery soil"
Antonyms (11)
clean, make clean
v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
clean
adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
clear
adj. free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through; "clear water"; "clear plastic bags"; "clear glass"; "the air is clear and clean"
clear
adj. clear to the mind; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature"
crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent
adj. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal"
dry
adj. free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
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