MUDDY


Meaning of MUDDY in English

I. adjective

1.

having a great deal of mud

playing in the wet field, he got his shoes all muddy

Synonyms: bemired, ||clayey, ||clarty, miry, oozy

Related Word: black, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, soily, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly; bedraggled, draggled

Contrasted words: clean, cleanly, immaculate, spotless, taintless, unsoiled, unsullied

Antonyms: mudless

2.

Synonyms: turbid , riley, roily

Related Word: gloomy, murky; addled, confused, muddled

3.

Synonyms: dull 8, drab, murky, subfusc

II. verb

1.

Synonyms: soil 2, begrime, besoil, dirty, grime, smirch, smooch, smudge, smutch, tarnish

2.

Synonyms: roil 1, mud, muddle, rile

3.

Synonyms: dull 1, dim, fade, pale, tarnish

4.

Synonyms: confuse 4, becloud, befog, blur, cloud, fog

Related Word: conceal, hide, screen

Contrasted words: illuminate, illumine, light, lighten

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