swampy
/'swɔmpi/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Resembling or characteristic of a swamp; waterlogged and soft: Describes land, soil, or an area that is wet, soft, and often covered with standing water, similar to a swamp.
- Abounding in swamps: Describes a region that contains many swamps or marshy areas.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The swampy ground made it difficult to walk. (The soft, waterlogged soil was hard to walk on.)
- They built a house near the swampy bayou. (They constructed a home close to the wet, marshy inlet.)
- The area is known for its swampy terrain. (The region is famous for its land that is like a swamp.)
Advanced Usage
- "Swampy conditions": A phrase describing an environment that is wet, muddy, and difficult to traverse.
- The heavy rains created swampy conditions on the trail.
- "Swampy lowlands": A descriptive term for flat, wet areas of land.
- The river floods the swampy lowlands every spring.
Variants and Related Words
- Swamp (n): An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.
- The alligators live in the swamp.
- Swamp (v): To overwhelm or flood with water or an excessive amount of something.
- The agency was swamped with applications.
- Marshy (adj): Characteristic of a marsh; soft and wet.
- Boggy (adj): Too wet and muddy to be easily walked on; marshy.
- Quaggy (adj) (literary): Resembling a quagmire; soft and boggy.
Synonyms
- Marshy
- Boggy
- Miry
- Mucky
- Waterlogged
- Soggy
Related Phrases
- Swampy land: Land that is like a swamp.
- Swampy area: A specific location that is swampy.
- Swampy smell: A musty, earthy odor often associated with wetlands.
Related Idioms
(Note: There are no common idioms that use the exact word "swampy." Idioms typically use the noun "swamp," such as "swamped with work.")
Adjective
- (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