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

The unsettled pattern is expected to continue into next week, with 60–80% rain and storm chances Monday through Wednesday.

— Keily Alfonzo, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
What unsettled investors was the gap between the Fed's economic forecasts and Warsh's remarks.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of unsettled

Adjective

Digging in the dirt and playing with things that were slimy or gooey also sparked a welcome sense of childlike wonder in me.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2026
While the production of mucilage is a natural property of cooked okra, there are ways to downplay its effects and to make the slimy texture less prominent.

— Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of slimy

Adjective

This appointment arrives as Nike navigates deep operational restructuring and severe market headwinds.

— , CNBC, 18 Sep. 2026
Six decades earlier, on the same grounds, a young Muhammad Ali absorbed a famous left hook from Henry Cooper late in the fourth round, then finished the fight in the fifth when the referee stopped it because of a severe cut over Cooper’s eye.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of severe

Adjective

Horror films and increasingly brutal crime stories reveal the very large market for the subject.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 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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