mucky
7
3.2
- adjective
- /ˈmʌki/
:
sucio
- The children came inside covered in mucky dirt after playing in the mud.
- mucky soil
I guess we had a storm come through, so water's pretty mucky.
- I guess we had a storm come through, so water's pretty mucky.
Examples
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Make sure you take your best clothes off before you go in that mucky workshop.
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The water is rusty, icky, mucky!
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It's pretty mucky in there.
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It's mucky and the visibility is poor.
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We started running into more of those mucky little streams, most of which were narrow enough to jump over.
Fiction book (1991) -
I don't want to cross this mucky, messy yard.
Fiction book (1995) -
To the north, the marsh water is knee-deep in places, while south of the road, mucky soils prevail, with little standing water.
Academic text (1992) -
At one place along the trail, where the soil becomes extremely mucky, a boardwalk permits the hiker to continue unimpeded.
Academic text (2009) -
The smile ended abruptly when she observed her laundry flapping against the mucky edge of a wooden drainpipe.
Fiction book (1992) -
A blight of shanties now across an expanse of cleared, scarred, mucky earth.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
233
1.0
Not tidy or clean, with things in the wrong place
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
73
1.1
Covered in mud and hard to walk on
23
3.7
A liquid that is dark and cloudy because it has dirt in it
17
1.9
Very wet, soft ground that is often muddy after rain
8
2.9
Soft, wet ground that is difficult to walk on
5
1.8
Soft wet land that often has shallow water
4
1.6
Soft, wet ground that is hard to walk on
4
7.0
Dirty and untidy, often wet after being in rain or mud
3
5.2
Ground that is full of water and too soft to walk on or grow plants
2
5.6
Soft wet ground that is hard to walk on
1
2.5
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
1
7.7
Covered with sticky, dirty stuff
1
3.6
Soft and easy to crush, often wet or spongy
1
4.8
Thick, soft, and wet like mud that makes walking hard
1
3.7
Covered all over with dirt or mud
1
7.4
Untidy and dirty, with things out of place
A thing that has mud on it, like boots or a coat after walking in wet ground
Having mud on clothes after being outside
Very muddy, soft ground that is hard to walk on
Soft wet ground that makes walking difficult
A place or surface that is wet, muddy and looks dirty and messy
Wet and soft with water that splashes when you walk on it
Soft, wet ground that feels like deep mud
Dirty and polluted with waste or unwanted material
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mucky comes from the simple word muck, meaning 'dirt' or 'mud', plus the ending -y, which means 'full of'. So mucky is literally 'full of dirt', which is why it means dirty or muddy.