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Adjective: muddy (muddier,muddiest) mú-dee- Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
"muddy boots"; - mucky - (of soil) soft and watery
"muddy barnyard"; - boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, squelchy - (of colour) discoloured by impurities; not bright and clear
"a muddy white"; "muddy colours"; - dirty, dingy, muddied - (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
"muddy coffee"; - cloudy, mirky [archaic], murky, turbid - Not clear to the mind
"the law itself was muddy on that point"; - unclear Verb: muddy mú-dee- Dirty with mud
- muddy up - Cause to become unclear, confusing or more complicated
"These data would have muddied the prediction" - Make turbid
"muddy the water"
Derived forms: muddies, muddiest, muddier, muddying, muddied 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 |