sloppy
Syllables: slop·py/ˈslɒ.pi/US/ˈslɑ.pi/
sloppy adjective: composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
Adjective
sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
- Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- Careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- Synonyms:
- careless, cursory, derelict, heedless, irregardless, irrespective, lash, lax, incautious, neglectful
- Imprecise or loose.
- a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
- My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.
- Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was...2024 February 23, Paul MacInnes, “‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian...
- The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.2025 January 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...
Proper noun capitalized: Sloppy
Sloppy (plural Sloppys)
- A surname.
sloppy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
sloppy in Tamil
- கவனக் குறைவான
sloppy in Bengali
- অগোছালো, অপরিচ্ছন্ন, অযত্নে করা
sloppy in Malayalam
- watery, runny, thin
- നഞ്ഞ, വെള്ളം തളം കെട്ടിയ, വെള്ളം പോലെയുള്ള, ജലമയമായ, ആപോമയ, ഒഴുകുന്ന
- careless, slapdash, slipshod
- അശ്രദ്ധമായ, ശ്രദ്ധയില്ലാത്ത, ഒഴുക്കൻ മട്ടിലുള്ള, പതിഞ്ഞ, അലക്ഷ്യമായ, ആലോചന കൂടാതെയുള്ള
- loose-fitting, baggy, loose
- അയവുള്ള, അയഞ്ഞുതൂങ്ങിയ, പാകമല്ലാത്ത, തൂങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുന്ന, അയവായി വെട്ടിത്തയ്ച്ച, വലിപ്പം കൂടിയ
- mawkish, sentimental, cloying
- അതിഭാവുകത്വമുള്ള, അതിഭാവുകത്വം നിറഞ്ഞ, വെെകാരിക, അതിഭാവുകപ്രവണതയുള്ള, ഭാവതരളമായ, മടുപ്പിക്കുന്ന
sloppy in Kannada
- ಸರಳ, ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ, ಸಡಿಲವಾದ, ದಗಲೆ, ದೊಗಲೆ, ಎಚ್ಚರ ಸಾಲದ ಮತ್ತು ಅಪೂರ್ಣ
More languagesFewer languages
- sloppy in Nepali
- स्लोपी
- sloppy in Persian
- شلخته šelaxte
Examples of sloppy in a sentence
- It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
- He is such a jerk; he gave me a sloppy wet willy.
- He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons.
Synonyms of sloppy
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Forms of sloppy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | sloppier |
| superlative | sloppiest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sloppys |
Origin of sloppy
From slop + -y.
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Questions about sloppy
- What does sloppy mean?
- Sloppy means composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
- What is sloppy in Tamil?
- Sloppy in Tamil is கவனக் குறைவான. See Sloppy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sloppy?
- Sloppy can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sloppy?
- Sloppy is pronounced /ˈslɒ.pi/ (UK).
Words near sloppy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sloppy (page history and authors); Sloppy (page history and authors); sloppy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sloppy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sloppy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sloppy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sloppy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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