miry

Other forms of miry

comparative

mirier·

superlative

miriest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miry

What does miry mean?

miry means "(of soil) soft and watery".

How many syllables are in miry?

miry has 2 syllables: mi-ry. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for miry?

Close synonyms include boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miry a common word?

miry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.