muddy
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- dirty, bespattered, grimy, mucky, mud-caked, soiled
- boggy, marshy, quaggy, swampy

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Antonyms: mudless
Contrasted words: clean, cleanly, immaculate, spotless, taintless, unsoiled, unsullied, illuminate, illumine, light, lighten
Related Words: black, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, soily, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, bedraggled, draggled, gloomy, murky, addled, confused, muddled, conceal, hide, screen

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English Thesaurus: dirty, filthy, muddy, dusty, greasy, ...

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I. mud‧dy¹ /ˈmʌdi/ adjective

1. covered with mud or containing mud:
Take your boots off outside if they’re muddy.
the muddy waters of the lake

2. confused and not clear:
On the issue of education, the difference between the two parties is muddy.

3. colours that are muddy are dull:
The carpet was an unpleasant muddy brown.

4. sounds that are muddy are not clear

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II. muddy² verb (past tense and past participle muddied, present participle muddying, third person singular muddies) [transitive]

1. to make something dirty with mud:
Lizzy walked around the edge of the field, taking care not to muddy her new shoes.

2. muddy the waters/the issue to make a situation more complicated or confusing than it was before – used to show disapproval

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muddy
adj.
VERBS be, look | become, get | get sth, make sth Don't get your shoes muddy! The rain had made the football pitch extremely muddy.
ADV. extremely, very | all My boots were all muddy.
a bit, rather We all got a bit muddy and wet.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

dirty not clean:
His clothes were untidy and he had dirty hands.
filthy very dirty:
Each year filthy water causes millions of cases of illness.
muddy covered with mud:
It had been raining hard and the path was muddy.
dusty covered with dust:
the dusty shelves in the attic
greasy covered with oil or grease:
Greasy food is bad for your health.
grubby (also mucky British English) informal fairly dirty and needing to be cleaned or washed:
He was wearing a grubby white T-shirt.
mucky fingers
grimy covered with thick dirt or dirt that has been there a long time:
I couldn’t see much out of the grimy windows of the train.
dingy /ˈdɪndʒi/ looking dark, dirty, and unpleasant. Used about rooms, houses, and buildings:
We worked in a dingy little office behind the station.
polluted used about land, water, or air that has been made dirty:
85% of city dwellers breathe heavily polluted air.
contaminated made dirty by a dangerous substance or bacteria:
The virus is mainly spread through contaminated food.
squalid /ˈskwɒləd, ˈskwɒlɪd $ ˈskwɑː-/ formal extremely dirty and unpleasant. Used about the place or conditions in which someone lives:
People are living in squalid conditions, with little water and no sanitation.
unhygienic /ʌnhaɪˈdʒiːnɪk◂ $ -ˈdʒe-, -ˈdʒiː-/ formal used about dirty conditions that are likely to cause disease, especially conditions in kitchens, restaurants, and hospitals:
The food was prepared under unhygienic conditions.
unsanitary (also insanitary British English) formal used about dirty conditions that are likely to cause disease, especially because there is not a good system for getting rid of waste:
People’s health is being threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes.
They work for long hours in unsanitary conditions.
soiled formal made dirty, especially by waste from your body:
Soiled nappies should be changed as quickly as possible.

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