sloppy

English

Etymology

slop +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpi

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 Thesaurus:careless

Derived terms

• sloppiness
• sloppily

Translations

very wet; covered in or composed of slop

• Finnish: vetinen (fi), vetelä (fi)
• French: mouillé (fr), trop liquide
• Maori: kūrarirari

• Russian: мо́крый (ru) (mókryj), сля́котный (ru) (sljákotnyj)
• Ukrainian: мо́крий (mókryj)

messy; not neat, elegant, or careful

• Bulgarian: недоизкусурен (bg) (nedoizkusuren)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吊兒郎當 (zh), 吊儿郎当 (zh) (diàorlàngdàng)

• Dutch: slordig (nl)
• Finnish: huolimaton (fi)
• French: bâclé (fr), négligé (fr)
• Georgian: დაუდევარი (daudevari), მოუწესრიგებელი (mouc̣esrigebeli)
• German: schlampig (de), salopp (de)

• Japanese: ぐちゃぐちゃ (guchagucha), ずさんな (zusan na), だらしない (ja) (darashinai)
• Maori: hakuhakutai
• Persian: شلخته‎‎ (fa) (šelaxte)
• Polish: niechlujny (pl)
• Portuguese: desleixado (pt)
• Russian: неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj), небре́жный (ru) (nebréžnyj), неаккура́тный (ru) (neakkurátnyj)
• Spanish: desprolijo
• Ukrainian: неоха́йний (neoxájnyj), недба́лий (nedbályj)

imprecise or loose

• Finnish: epätarkka (fi), väljä (fi)
• French: lâche (fr), large (fr), ample (fr)
• Hungarian: hanyag (hu), felületes (hu)

• Maori: pakirara, hakirara, hakurara
• Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• polyps