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 greatest threat of unsettled weather is expected Saturday, NWS forecaster Justin Lane said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The unsettled partisan lines around this issue have allowed anger, rooted in decades of deindustrialization and public austerity, to flourish in the electorate.
    — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 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
  • Another flagger, not publicly identified, suffered severe head trauma in 2024 after he was hit by an out-of-service F train in Brooklyn.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Five people were killed, three critically injured and two others hospitalized with less severe injuries, Miami-Dade County officials told a news conference.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of severe
Adjective
  • The floating schools were a response to a longstanding local problem of seasonal floods and impassable, muddy roads that kept children from reaching conventional schools.
    — Ali Asif Shawon, NPR, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Half-dead and dragging himself on his belly through a muddy field, Eddie is far from the calm, affable aristocrat audiences first met in Season 1.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of muddy
Adjective
  • When everything changed, as the dust literally settled on the most brutal terror attack on United States soil, the prevailing impulse among NFL owners was to play the games.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The cuts and the freezing of public funding for the film industry have been brutal for Argentine cinema.
    — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 11 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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“Roily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roily. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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