muddy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmʌdi]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ʌdi
Adjective
muddy (comparative muddier, superlative muddiest)
- Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
- He slogged across the muddy field.
- Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
- With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
- The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the epic struggle.
- Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
- The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.
- Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
- Burke
- cold hearts and muddy understandings
- Shakespeare
- dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled
- Burke
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
Translations
covered with mud
Verb
muddy (third-person singular simple present muddies, present participle muddying, simple past and past participle muddied)
- (transitive) To get mud on (something).
- If you muddy your shoes don't wear them inside.
- (transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.
- The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
- 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:
- As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy.
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