sloppiness

Other forms of sloppiness

plural

sloppinesses·

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 sloppiness

What does sloppiness mean?

sloppiness means "the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sloppiness?

sloppiness has 3 syllables: slop-pi-ness. The stress falls on "slop". In IPA it is /ˈslɑpinəs/.

What is another word for sloppiness?

Close synonyms include wateriness, muddiness, slovenliness, unkemptness, carelessness. 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 sloppiness a common word?

sloppiness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.