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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'muddy'

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1. (adj) boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(of soil) soft and watery
Synonyms: dingy, miry, waterlogged, spongy, squishy, pulpy, murky, mucky, loose-fitting, haphazard, baggy, sloughy, torpid, inert, sloppy, dirty, turbid, mirky, doughy, spongelike, marshy, sluggish, cloudy, swampy, slapdash, squashy, slipshod, quaggy, overemotional, soggy, boggy, muddy, muddied
Antonyms: clear, dry, clean, pure

2. (adj) mucky, muddy
dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Synonyms: dingy, miry, waterlogged, murky, mucky, sloughy, sloppy, dirty, turbid, mirky, marshy, cloudy, swampy, squashy, quaggy, soggy, boggy, muddy, muddied
Antonyms: dry, clean, pure, clear

3. (adj) dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Synonyms: filthy, raunchy, marked-up, sloughy, foul, lousy, sordid, sloppy, dismal, dirty, soiled, disconsolate, turbid, grungy, pestiferous, marshy, begrimed, gloomy, blue, muddied, cheating(a), swampy, unclean, mucky, boggy, grimy, dark, grim, miry, soggy, ill-gotten, unsportsmanlike, grubby, unsporting, contaminating, squashy, cloudy, sorry, muddy, murky, drab, mirky, dingy, waterlogged, dreary, drear, quaggy
Antonyms: dry, clean, pure, clear

4. (verb) cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid
(of liquids) clouded as with sediment
Synonyms: dingy, miry, waterlogged, nebulose, mucky, soggy, sloughy, sloppy, nebulous, murky, marshy, dirty, cloudy, muddied, swampy, squashy, quaggy, muddy, boggy, mirky, turbid
Antonyms: dry, clear, pure, clean

5. (verb) muddy, muddy up
dirty with mud
Synonyms: muddy, muddy up
Antonyms: clean, clear, pure, dry

6. (verb) muddy
cause to become muddy
Synonyms: muddy up
Antonyms: pure, clean, dry, clear

7. (verb) muddy
make turbid
Synonyms: muddy up
Antonyms: dry, clean, pure, clear

Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'muddy'

English Synonyms and Antonyms

1. muddy
That is obscure which the eye or the mind can not clearly discern or see through, whether because of its own want of transparency, its depth or intricacy, or because of mere defect of light. That w
Synonyms: obscure, abstruse, darksome, dusky, involved, ambiguous, deep, enigmatical, muddy, cloudy, dense, hidden, mysterious, complex, difficult, incomprehensible, profound, complicated, dim, indistinct, turbid, dark, doubtful, intricate, unintelligible

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