sloppy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpi

Etymology

From slop, + -y suffix.

Adjective

sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

   The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

   The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

3. Imprecise or loose.

   A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:careless

Derived terms

• sloppiness

Translations

very wet; covered in or composed of slop

• Finnish: vetinen (fi), vetelä (fi)

• Russian: мокрый (ru) (mókryj), слякотный (ru) (sljákotnyj)

messy; not neat, elegant, or careful

• Bulgarian: недоизкусурен (bg) (nedoizkusuren)
• Dutch: slordig (nl)
• Finnish: huolimaton (fi)
• German: schlampig (de)

• Portuguese: desleixado (pt)
• Russian: неряшливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj), небрежный (ru) (nebréžnyj), неаккуратный (ru) (neakkurátnyj)
• Spanish: desprolijo (es)

imprecise or loose

• Finnish: epätarkka (fi), väljä (fi)

• Russian: свободный (ru) (svobódnyj)

External links

• sloppy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sloppy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• polyps