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Synonyms for sloughy

  • adjective

Most common

swampy marshy boggy miry scruffy scurfy scarious

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Miry

miry, swampy, marshy, boggy, mucky informal, muddy, sloppy, squashy, quaggy, soggy, waterlogged, fenny

Other

scruffy, scurfy, scarious

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.

Example sentences

  • swampy Swampy land is no use for building purposes.
  • marshy Gabriel made his way through the dense marshy area.
  • boggy Groningen used to be very boggy.
  • scruffy He wears scruffy clothes and has an unkempt beard.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
sloughysteady
swampyfalling
marshyfalling
boggysteady
miryrising
scruffyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
miry
5 letters
muddy2, soggy2, boggy, mucky2, fenny
6 letters
sloppy2, swampy2, marshy2, scurfy, quaggy
7 letters
scruffy2, squashy2
8 letters
scarious
11 letters
waterlogged3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (muddy2 = 2 syllables).