sloppy

1. 1.

   lacking neatness or order

   “a sloppy room”

   “sloppy habits”

   Similaruntidy
2. 2.

   wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

   “a sloppy floor”

   “a sloppy saucer”

   Similarwet
3. 3.

   (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”

   Synonymsboggymarshymirymuckymuddyquaggysloughysoggysquashyswampywaterlogged

   Similarwet
4. 4.

   not fitting closely; hanging loosely

   “baggy trousers”

   “a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather”

   Synonymsbaggyloose-fitting

   Similarloose
5. 5.

   excessively or abnormally emotional

   Synonymsoveremotional

   Similaremotional
6. 6.

   marked by great carelessness

   “a most haphazard system of record keeping”

   “slapdash work”

   “slipshod spelling”

   “sloppy workmanship”

   Synonymshaphazardslapdashslipshod

   Similarcareless

Other forms of sloppy

comparative or superlative

sloppier

comparative or superlative

sloppiest

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 sloppy

What does sloppy mean?

sloppy means "lacking neatness or order". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sloppy?

sloppy has 2 syllables: slop-py. The stress falls on "slop". In IPA it is /ˈslɑpi/.

What is another word for sloppy?

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

sloppy is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.