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Verbs (4)

muddy

v. cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"

muddy

v. make turbid; "muddy the water"

muddy, muddy up

v. dirty with mud

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Adjectives (23)

mucky, muddy

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy

adj. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid

adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"

boggy, 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"

Fuzzynyms (51)

roil, rile

v. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

cloud

v. make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

foul, befoul, defile, maculate

v. spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"

sloppy

adj. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"

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"

bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy

adj. indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes"

shadowy, wraithlike

adj. lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"

dark, obscure

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"

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, nebulose, nebulous

adj. lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"

dull, thudding

adj. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"

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"

equivocal

adj. uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"

confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, 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"

addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded

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, fouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

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, dust-covered

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

feculent

adj. foul with waste matter

filthy, foul, 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"

etiolate, etiolated, blanched

adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

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"

dulled, greyed

adj. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road"

drab, sober, somber, sombre

adj. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

white, whitened

adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

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

adj. impenetrable for the eye; "solid blackness"

milky, milklike, whitish

adj. resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass"

radiopaque, radio-opaque

adj. not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation; "barium sulfate is radiopaque"

bedewed, dewy

adj. wet with dew

besprent

adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"

humid

adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather"

damp, dampish, moist

adj. slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

sodden, soppy

adj. wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"

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

adj. wet with mist; "the misty evening"

hydrous, hydrated

adj. containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)

steaming, steamy

adj. filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steamy towels"

perspiring, sweaty

adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"

reeking, watery

adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"

showery, rainy

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

soggy, waterlogged

sticky

adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

watery

adj. filled with water; "watery soil"

Antonyms (13)

clean, make clean

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

clean

adj. not carrying concealed weapons

clear

adj. allowing light to pass through; "clear water"; "clear plastic bags"; "clear glass"; "the air is clear and clean"

well-defined, clear

adj. accurately stated or described; "a set of well-defined values"

crystalline, crystal clear, 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. opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state"

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