Entry Word: muddy

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 full of or covered with soft wet earth <please do not walk in the house with muddy boots on, as you will get the carpet dirty>

Synonyms miry, mucky, oozy, slimy, sludgy, slushy

Related Words clayey, loamy, silty; bedraggled; dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, impure, squalid, unclean, uncleanly

Near Antonyms clean, cleanly, immaculate, spotless, unsoiled, unsullied

2 having visible particles in liquid suspension <whether muddy or not, water taken from lakes and streams should be boiled by campers> — see cloudy 1
3 not clean <we were all muddy after playing outside> — see dirty 1