muddy

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muddy

The children's boots were muddy after playing in the field.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Clouded with sediment; not clear: Describing a liquid that is opaque or murky due to suspended particles, like dirt or mud.
    • Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck: Describing something soiled or made unclean by mud.
    • (Of soil) soft, wet, and yielding: Describing ground that is waterlogged, boggy, or marshy.
    • (Of color, light, or sound) dull, impure, or unclear: Describing something that is not bright, clean, or distinct.

  2. Verb:

    • To make something dirty with mud: To cover or soil something with mud.
    • To make something cloudy or turbid: To stir up sediment in a liquid, making it unclear.
    • To make something confused or unclear: To obscure or complicate a situation, idea, or thought process.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • After the storm, the river became muddy and brown.
    • Please take off your muddy boots before coming inside.
    • The path was muddy and difficult to walk on.
    • The recording had a muddy sound, making the words hard to understand.

  • Verb:

    • The children muddied their clothes while playing in the puddles.
    • Don't stir the pond; you'll muddy the water.
    • His emotional speech muddied the clear facts of the case.
Advanced Usage

  • "to muddy the waters": To make a situation more confusing or complicated.

    • Introducing a new proposal now would only muddy the waters.

  • "muddy thinking": Confused, unclear, or illogical thought.

    • The report was criticized for its muddy thinking and lack of focus.
Variants and Related Words
  • Muddied (adj/verb, past participle): Made dirty or unclear.
    • The muddied window needed cleaning.
  • Muddiness (n): The state or quality of being muddy.
    • The muddiness of the argument made it hard to follow.
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Murky, cloudy, turbid, boggy, marshy, dingy, dull.
  • Verb: Soil, dirty, befoul, cloud, obscure, confuse.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
  • Muddy up (informal): To make something dirty or muddy.
    • The dog muddied up the clean floor.
Related Idioms
  • As clear as mud (humorous): Used to say something is very confusing or not clear at all.
    • His explanation was as clear as mud.
muddy

The children's boots were muddy after playing in the field.

Adjective
  1. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
    • a cloudy liquid
    • muddy coffee
    • murky waters
  2. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
    • dirty is often used in combination
    • a dirty (or dingy) white
    • the muddied grey of the sea
    • muddy colors
    • dirty-green walls
    • dirty-blonde hair
  3. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
    • muddy boots
    • a mucky stable
  4. (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
Verb
  1. make turbid
    • muddy the water
  2. cause to become muddy
    • These data would have muddied the prediction
  3. dirty with mud

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