rutty
1
7.0
- adjective
- /ˈrʌti/
:
surcado
- Not too much later, Smith turned the wagon onto a rutty road that traveled up to a small house on a rise, and down to a cabin, which lay in a depression fronted by a stand of trees.
- rutty road
Examples
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My elder sister was grinding barley with the little stone mill; the sound of it was a rich, rutty undertone that I always loved.
Fiction book (1997) -
A more level right-of-way had been bulldozed across neighboring land to bring in the contractor's equipment, but it was too rutty and rooty for the family car and the pickup.
Fiction book (1990) -
The van tries to negotiate without the benefit of four-wheel drive, up a steep and rutty incline.
Fiction book (1992) -
Reaching out to someone you haven't had the privilege of becoming close with is also a great way to get you out of your habits, routine, and rutty feelings.
Blog text (23) -
In Vermont, early spring is known as mud season because thawing dirt roads turn muddy and rutty.
Academic text (1998) -
She walked slowly up the narrow, rutty road to the cemetery, nodding into the yellow blossoms.
Fiction book (1993) -
We followed a long, boring ridge for the better part of fifteen minutes... then began to climb a slope that bore the rutty look of lunar ground that had known tractor treads hundreds of times before.
Fiction book (2001) -
Unlike a fin-de-siècle driver of a Stanley Steamer, who had to be prepared to water his machine when it was dry and fix it when it broke down on a rutty rural road, today's car
Academic text (2000) -
I snag the old man's raveling cardigan off the back-porch nail, wrap up like a secret, and slip out through the root cellar, past the crab apple full of jays who suddenly cry my name, and enter the rutty field.
Fiction book (1994) -
The path to the old farm was quite rutty, making it difficult for the car to drive smoothly.
Synonyms
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6.9
A road or path with long, deep grooves from passing wheels
Antonyms
How Rutted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rutty comes from the noun rut, which is a deep groove or track worn in a road by wheels; so rutty simply means a surface that is 'full of ruts' and hard to travel.