sloughy

Other forms of sloughy

comparative

sloughier·

superlative

sloughiest·

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 sloughy

What does sloughy mean?

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

How many syllables are in sloughy?

sloughy has 2 syllables: sloug-hy. The stress falls on "sloug".

What is another word for sloughy?

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 sloughy a common word?

sloughy 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.