muddier

Adjective

muddy (comparative muddier, superlative muddiest)

1. Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
   • He slogged across the muddy field.

   Synonyms:

   oozy, clatchy

2. Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
   • The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.
3. Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
   • [H]er garments, heauy vvith her drinke, / Pul'd the poore vvretch from her melodious buy^([sic – meaning lay]), / To muddy death.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
4. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
5. (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
   • There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.1818 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mazenghi”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt...
6. (figuratively) Dirty, filthy.
   • There's not the ſmalleſt orbe [in the sky] vvhich thou beholdſt, / But in his motion like an Angell ſings, / Still quiring to the young eide Cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortall ſoules, / But vvhilſt this muddy veſture of decay [i.e., the human body] / Doth groſſely cloſe in it, vve cannot...c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act...

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