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
  • The opening-night depth chart remains unsettled, and Brown’s return will make the competition more complicated.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Chance of showers, thunderstorms increases Thursday Our weather pattern becomes more unsettled as the upper-level trough advances eastward.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of unsettled
Adjective
  • This year, correspondent Luke Burbank attended the 65th annual competition, in which contestants were of a particularly slimy variety.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The tight hiding places of Kaitlyn Dever’s rambling house seem almost roomy compared with being stuck in the slimy gut of a sperm whale.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of slimy
Adjective
  • The crisis capped a week of severe weather in which rain swamped dozens of homes in Utah and tornadoes blew off roofs, knocked trees onto houses and downed power lines in Arizona.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, says the severe thunderstorms are fueled by the large amount of moisture in the air.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of severe
Adjective
  • Living room furniture does not stand a chance against a shedding dog, a muddy paw or a cat with strong opinions about upholstery.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
  • On muddy gravel between the smokestacks and the water, a forklift held what looked like an enormous sack of sand.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of muddy
Adjective
  • Now in his 25th year on television, Chuck has built a beloved media career through brutal honesty.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Although the decrease in shot volume wasn’t quite as dramatic, Giddey went 1-for-10 from the field and scored only two points in Wednesday’s brutal beatdown by the Raptors.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of brutal
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
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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