roily

adjective

Definition of roilynext
1
as in silty

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2
as in unsettled

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roily
  1. loamy
  2. unsettled
  3. slimy
  4. severe
  5. muddy
  6. brutal
  7. oozy
  8. unquiet
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
  • Tuesday's Michigan Democratic Senate primary race remains unsettled, with progressive Abdul El-Sayed holding onto a narrow lead over moderate Haley Stevens with votes still being counted.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The weekend’s weather still looks unsettled with more chances for rain.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of unsettled
Adjective
  • Others, however, pick up strange flavors and are unappetizingly slimy and rubbery.
    — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Once cut, store summer squash in an airtight container lined with a dry paper towel to absorb excess moisture and help prevent it from becoming slimy.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 27 July 2026
Definition of slimy
Adjective
  • Wu said that the fungus mostly affects patients with severe underlying medical conditions who require complex medical care.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026
  • What to read next To have any realistic chance of seeing the northern lights during the eclipse, Earth would need to be in the grip of a severe geomagnetic storm.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of severe
Adjective
  • If the picture stays muddy even in that scenario, ability was never the constraint.
    — Leslie Ellis, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The topsoil in the new lawn may not have settled by the time of the first cut and there may be some muddy spots from all the watering.
    — Amanda Tust, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of muddy
Adjective
  • His brutal murder in Culiacán, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, happened in just a few seconds on Tuesday in front of an audience of thousands of social media users watching his TikTok stream.
    — Rey Rodríguez, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Deliberate exposure is a brutal test — in this trial, 81% of the placebo group got sick, experiencing diarrhea and fever in some cases before receiving antibiotics.
    — Joseph Kim, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • The menu is full of sustaining stews, ample vegetables and, from the toné (clay oven), khachapuri, a genre of breads infiltrated by cheese and by turns fluffy, elastic, oozy and tender.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Those chunks will melt on top into oozy, photo-worthy pools of chocolate.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 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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