1. Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
   "muddy boots";
   - mucky
    
2. (of soil) soft and watery
   "muddy barnyard";
   - boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, squelchy
    
3. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
   "muddy coffee";
   - cloudy, mirky [archaic], murky, turbid
    
4. (of colour) discoloured by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
   "a muddy white"; "muddy colours";
   - dirty, dingy, muddied
    
5. Not clear to the mind
   "the law itself was muddy on that point";
   - unclear

1. Dirty with mud
   "The kids muddied up their shoes playing in the rain";
   - muddy up [informal]
    
2. Make turbid
   "muddy the water"
    
3. Cause to become unclear, confusing or more complicated
   "These data would have muddied the prediction"

Derived forms: muddied, muddies, muddiest, muddying, muddier

See also: ambiguous, amorphous, blurred, clarity, clearness, clouded, confusing, dirty, impure, incomprehensible, indefinite, indistinct, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, obscure, opaque, pellucidity, perplexing, puzzling, soiled, squidgy [Brit, informal], unclean, uncomprehensible, vague, wet

Type of: alter, begrime, bemire [archaic], blur, change, colly [archaic], confuse, dirty, grime, modify, obnubilate, obscure, soil

Encyclopedia: Muddy, Illinois