muddily
- adverb
- /ˈmʌdɪli/
- The river was muddily flowing after the heavy rain, making it difficult to see the bottom.
Examples
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He followed the track that meandered muddily down the slope, steadying himself on tree branches until he found the main road into town.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her feet slid muddily inside her own shoes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The artist's vision was muddily expressed in her painting, leaving viewers unsure of its meaning.
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After the storm, the garden path was muddily covered with mud, making it hard to walk through.
Synonyms
In a dark, unclear way that is hard to see or understand
In a rough, incomplete way that lacks detail
In a way that is not clear and hard to remember
In a vague and unclear way
Antonyms
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word muddily comes from the simple word mud, which means 'wet earth', and the ending -ly that makes a word tell how something is done. So muddily means 'in a muddy way', either literally 'covered in mud' or figuratively 'unclearly' when something is hard to understand.