Definitions for: Muddy


[adj] dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
[adj] (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
[adj] (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
[adj] (of soil) soft and watery; "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"
[v] cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
[v] make turbid; "muddy the water"
[v] dirty with mud



Webster (1913) Definition: Mud"dy, a. [Compar. Muddier; superl. Muddiest.]
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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muddying.]
1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. --Grew.

Synonyms: boggy, cloudy, dingy, dirty, impure, marshy, mirky, miry, mucky, muddied, muddy up, murky, opaque, quaggy, sloughy, soiled, swampy, turbid, unclean, wet

See Also: alter, begrime, bemire, blur, change, colly, confuse, dirty, grime, obscure, soil

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