muddy
muddy Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Covered in, full of, or consisting of wet, soft earth.
"The children left their muddy boots on the porch after walking through the rain-soaked field."
Dark, dull, or cloudy in color or appearance; not bright or clear (especially of liquids, colors, or light).
"Mixing too many pigments together resulted in a muddy brown shade on the canvas."
Vague, confused, or poorly organized in thought, expression, or acoustic sound.
"The essay suffered from muddy reasoning that made the author's main argument difficult to follow."
• verb
To soil, smear, or make dirty with wet earth.
"The dog muddied the freshly mopped kitchen floor as soon as it came inside."
To make an issue, situation, or explanation confusing, obscure, or difficult to understand.
"Introducing irrelevant statistics will only muddy the debate over the proposed policy."
• Rhymes for muddy
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in Middle English from the noun 'mud' (of Middle Low German or Middle Dutch origin, related to 'mudde', meaning thick mud) combined with the adjectival suffix '-y'.