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English Dictionary: sloppy |
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2 results for sloppy |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- sloppy
- adj
- lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy
habits"
- wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
- (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"
Synonym(s): boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
Synonym(s): baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy
- excessively or abnormally emotional
Synonym(s): overemotional, sloppy
- marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
Synonym(s): haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Sloppy \Slop"py\, a. [Compar. {Sloppier}; superl. {Sloppiest}.]
[From {Slop}.]
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped
over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
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