ROILY Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

roily

adjective

Definition of roily

as in silty

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as in unsettled

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Adjective

Soil Plants thrive in loamy, well-draining soil but tolerate a range of soil types, including clay.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 July 2026
Fill the container with high-quality, loamy, well-draining potting mix.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 June 2026

Definition of loamy

Adjective

However, the lack of a hybrid option, the touchscreen-heavy climate controls, and the occasionally unsettled ride prevent the Atlas from separating itself from the pack.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
But instead of bringing unsettled weather, the offshore storm helped produce cloud-free skies from Maine to Florida.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unsettled

Adjective

Even the stories that are printed with such intent have a shelf life that demands the pages to be turned into living stories and not wrapped around a slimy fish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Rocheron could translate all of that information into WETA’s digital pipeline, and enhance what had been shot, not just by painting out lights or a boom mic, but by creating that extra slimy, organic, alive quality of living tissue.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of slimy

Adjective

People across Sudan are not only hungry every single day, but countless people are suffering from severe malnutrition to starvation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
The layers act as tiny pressure vessels, trapping radioactive fission products even under severe heat.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of severe

Adjective

Introduced in muddy, crunchy scenes of big game highlights and raucous partying, the boys hear news of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Police later recovered the firearms in the bottom of a muddy canal at Northwest 10th Street and 18th Avenue.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of muddy

Adjective

In Samo’s warped reality, omnipresent hornets gain an evil power, forcing him to confront his mother in what could turn into a brutal showdown.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026
At this point, both teams are just playing for bowl eligibility, with brutal November schedules awaiting each team.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of brutal

Adjective

This pizza is comes together fast with premade dough and is loaded with oozy red sauce, two different cheeses, spinach, and Italian sausage.

— Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 21 Oct. 2026
There’s something irresistibly oozy about Tommy Lee Jones as Frog, eliding the spaces between his words so that every sentence becomes a song.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of oozy

Adjective

These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
The finale had the impossible task of putting the monstrous show to an unquiet grave, and while some storylines seemed rushed and others completely ignored, even everyone’s least favorite season of GOT is heart palpitating.

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025

Definition of unquiet

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