muddy

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌdi

Adjective

muddy (comparative muddier, superlative muddiest)

1. Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.

   He slogged across the muddy field.

   Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.

2. Not clear; mixed up or blurry.

   The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

3. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.

Translations

covered with mud

Catalan: fangós (ca) Czech: blátivý (cs) Esperanto: kota (eo) French: boueux (fr) m., vaseux (fr) m. Italian: fangoso (it)

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бла̀тан (sh) m. Roman: blàtan (sh) m. Spanish: turbio (es), fangoso (es), barroso (es) Swedish: lerig (sv)

Verb

muddy (third-person singular simple present muddies, present participle muddying, simple past and past participle muddied)

1. (transitive) To get mud on (something).

   If you muddy your shoes don't wear them inside.

2. (transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to.

   The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.