miry
- adjective
- /ˈmɪri/
:
fangoso
- Children love to jump in miry puddles after a rainstorm.
Examples
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A shower had made the tracks miry.
Fiction book (1991) -
After the heavy rain, the path became so miry that we could barely walk through it.
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The miry conditions made it hard for the runners to maintain their speed.
Synonyms
73
1.1
Covered in mud and hard to walk on
17
1.9
Very wet, soft ground that is often muddy after rain
10
6.0
Very wet and heavy with water
8
2.9
Soft, wet ground that is difficult to walk on
7
3.2
Dirty and covered in mud
5
1.8
Soft wet land that often has shallow water
4
1.6
Soft, wet ground that is hard to walk on
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
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
Soft wet ground that makes walking difficult
Soft, wet ground that feels like deep mud
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
Thick, sticky, and slow to move like wet mud
Antonyms
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word miry comes from the old word mire, which meant 'mud' or 'marsh' in an old northern language, plus the ending -y which means 'full of'. So, miry means 'full of mud' and is used for ground that is very wet and hard to walk on.