muddy

1. 1.

   dirty with mud

   Synonymsmuddy up

   Broaderdirty
2. 2.

   cause to become muddy

   “These data would have muddied the prediction”

   Broaderconfuse
3. 3.

   make turbid

   “muddy the water”

   Broaderchange

Other forms of muddy

past tense or participle

muddied

present participle

muddying·

third person

muddies·

comparative or superlative

muddier

comparative or superlative

muddiest

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 muddy

What does muddy mean?

muddy means "(of soil) soft and watery". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in muddy?

muddy has 2 syllables: mud-dy. The stress falls on "mud". In IPA it is /ˈmʌdi/.

What is another word for muddy?

Close synonyms include boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, 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 muddy a common word?

muddy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.