Synonyms for sloppy
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Slipshod — careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful
slipshod, careless, slapdash, slovenly, negligent, untidy, lax, unkempt, slack, bedraggled, tattered, remiss, derelict US, hap-hazard, sluttish, slatternly
2. Muddy
muddy, wet, soggy, mucky informal, swampy, squashy, boggy, waterlogged, marshy, miry, slabby, sloughy, plashy, quaggy, sodden
3. Loose
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- adj. 2
Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- adj. 3
Imprecise or loose.
a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
- adj. 4
Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.
Related words
- Word family
- sloppily sloppiness
- Phrases
- sloppy toppy
Example sentences
- careless It is very careless of you to leave the door open.
- slovenly As to his daily life, he is very slovenly.
- slapdash They did a slapdash job because they had so little time.
- wet Wet and stormy areas will get wetter and stormier.
- soggy It's raining heavily so the ground is very soggy.
By length
- 3 letters
- wet1, lax1
- 4 letters
- miry
- 5 letters
- loose1, slack1, muddy2, baggy2, soggy2, boggy, mucky2
- 6 letters
- shitty2, rotten2, crappy2, swampy2, untidy3, remiss2, marshy2, sodden2, slabby, plashy, quaggy, botchy
- 7 letters
- unkempt2, splashy2, squashy2, sloughy, uncrisp
- 8 letters
- careless2, derelict3, tattered2, slovenly3, slapdash2, slipshod2, sluttish
- 9 letters
- negligent3
- 10 letters
- bedraggled3, slatternly, unexacting
- 11 letters
- waterlogged3
- 13 letters
- overemotional
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (muddy2 = 2 syllables).