muddy

About 3.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

   He slogged across the muddy field.

2. adjective Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

   The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.

3. adjective Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
4. adjective Soiled with feces.
5. adjective Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
6. adjective Dirty, filthy. Not clear. Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.

   The television picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

7. adjective Dirty, filthy.
8. adjective Not clear. Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.

   The television picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

Similar words

wet muddy up sloughy quaggy swampy miry marshy boggy cloudy murky

Often followed by

water and waters river bottom the road roads creek

Word family

muddied muddier muddies muddiest muddily muddiness muddinesses muddying