miry

/'maiəri/

Thân thiện

The path became miry after the heavy rain.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Covered with or full of soft, wet, sticky earth (mud): Describes ground, soil, or terrain that is muddy, boggy, and difficult to walk on or travel through.
   • Resembling or characteristic of a mire: Having the qualities of a swamp or deep mud.

Usage

• The primary use of "miry" is to describe land or pathways that are extremely muddy, waterlogged, and soft.
• It is a descriptive term often found in literary or formal contexts to evoke a vivid image of difficult, muddy conditions.

Examples

• After days of heavy rain, the miry fields made it impossible for the tractors to operate.
• The hikers struggled through the miry trail, their boots sinking deep with each step.
• They had to abandon the car on the miry road until it could dry out.

Advanced Usage

• "Miry clay": A specific type of wet, sticky clay soil.
  • The potter found the miry clay difficult to work with.
• Used figuratively to describe a situation that is metaphorically "sticky," difficult, or morally corrupt (though this is a less common, more literary usage).
  • He found himself in the miry depths of despair.

Variants and Related Words

• Mire (noun): An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog or swamp.
  • The wagon was stuck in a deep mire.
• Mire (verb): To cause to get stuck in mud; to involve someone or something in a difficult situation.
  • The scandal mired the company in legal troubles.
• Mired (adjective): Stuck in mud or a difficult situation.
  • The negotiations were mired in disagreements.

Synonyms

• Boggy: Ground that is wet and spongy.
• Marshy: Characteristic of a marsh; soft, wet land.
• Muddy: Covered in or full of mud.
• Swampy: Like a swamp; waterlogged and soft.
• Quaggy: Soft and yielding underfoot; boggy.
• Sloughy: Full of or resembling a slough (a muddy area).

Antonyms

• Arid: Very dry, lacking moisture.
• Dry: Free from moisture or liquid.
• Firm: Solid, stable, not soft or yielding.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (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