muddy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb dirty with mud
    muddy up.
  2. verb cause to become muddy
    • These data would have muddied the prediction
  3. verb make turbid
    • muddy the water
  4. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    mucky; swampy; soggy; boggy; quaggy; marshy; sloughy; sloppy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
    • the ground was boggy under foot
    • a marshy coastline
    • miry roads
    • wet mucky lowland
    • muddy barnyard
    • quaggy terrain
    • the sloughy edge of the pond
    • swampy bayous
  5. adjective satellite dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
    mucky.
    • muddy boots
    • a mucky stable
  6. adjective satellite (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
    dingy; muddied; dirty.
    • dirty" is often used in combination
    • a dirty (or dingy) white
    • the muddied grey of the sea
    • muddy colors
    • dirty-green walls
    • dirty-blonde hair
  7. adjective satellite (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
    murky; turbid; mirky; cloudy.
    • a cloudy liquid
    • muddy coffee
    • murky waters

WordNet

Mud"dy adjective
Wordforms
comparative Muddier ; superlative Muddiest
Definitions
  1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
  2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
  3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
    This muddy vesture of decay. Shak.
  4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
    Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke.
    Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.
  5. Not clear or bright. Swift.
Mud"dy transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Muddied ; present participle & verbal noun Muddying
Definitions
  1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
  2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. Grew.

Webster 1913