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say it: SLAH-pee
sloppy is an adjective meaning "lacking neatness or order". It carries 6 recorded senses.
(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”
not fitting closely; hanging loosely
“baggy trousers”
“a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather”
excessively or abnormally emotional
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sloppy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.