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miry

/ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/

miry adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
    • Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

miry meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

miry in Tamil

ஊழனிலம், சுரி

miry in Urdu

دلدلی

miry in Malayalam

swampy, muddy, slushy
ചെളികലർന്ന, ചെളിയായ, ചെളികൊണ്ടുമൂടിയ, ചേറായ, ചെളിയുള്ള, ചെളിമയമായ

Synonyms of miry

All synonyms of miry

Forms of miry

comparativemirier
superlativemiriest

Origin of miry

From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y.

Words formed from miry

Words that rhyme with miry

Questions about miry

What does miry mean?
Miry means resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
What is miry in Tamil?
Miry in Tamil is ஊழனிலம், சுரி. See Miry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is miry?
Miry is an adjective.
How do you pronounce miry?
Miry is pronounced /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/ (UK).

Words near miry in the dictionary

  1. mirv
  2. mirved
  3. mirvetuximab soravtansine
  4. mirving
  5. mirvs
  6. miry
  7. Miry Creek
  8. miryachit
  9. Miryam
  10. Miryang dog
  11. mirza

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: miry (page history and authors); miry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); miry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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