soily
- adjective
- /ˈsɔɪli/
:
terroso
- The farmer noticed that the soily texture of the ground was perfect for growing vegetables.
Examples
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After a heavy rain, the children came inside with soily shoes from playing in the muddy puddles.
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I'm going to have little soily bits like this, yes.
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The hide odor off the horse, that soily smell he carried even in the winter.
Fiction book (1995) -
Exactly when you you brush on a type of glue first that we're mixed with paints to give us some kind of soily colored bases.
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The gardener's hands were soily after planting the flowers in the rich earth.
Synonyms
525
1.0
Not clean or covered with dirt
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
100
1.0
Having a layer of dust that makes it look dirty
73
1.1
Covered in mud and hard to walk on
26
6.1
Looking dirty and run down and often linked to crime
22
3.7
Covered in thick dirt that makes something look and feel dirty
13
3.4
Having the smell, color, or taste of soil
7
3.2
Dirty and covered in mud
1
2.5
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
Covered thickly with dark dirt or soot
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soily comes from the simple word soil, which means 'earth' or 'dirt', and from the idea 'to soil' meaning 'to make dirty'. So, something soily looks or feels covered in earth or simply dirty.