1. Lacking neatness or order
   "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
    
2. Marked by great carelessness
   "sloppy workmanship";
   - haphazard, slapdash, slipshod
    
3. Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
   "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
    
4. Not fitting closely; hanging loosely
   "sloppy trousers";
   - baggy, loose-fitting, saggy
    
5. [informal] Excessively or abnormally emotional
   "The sloppy drunk kept crying about his ex-girlfriend";
   - overemotional
    
6. (of food) watery or having too much liquid
   "The sloppy stew had too much broth"
    
7. (of soil) soft and watery
   "the ground was sloppy under foot";
   - boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, squelchy

Derived forms: sloppiest, sloppier

See also: careless, cavalier, cheapjack [N. Amer, informal], emotional, gimcrack, loose, lovey-dovey [informal], shoddy, squidgy [Brit, informal], untidy, wet

Encyclopedia: Sloppy