📖 Definitions of "Mucky"
adjective
- 1
Covered in muck.
- 2
Obscene, pornographic.
"a mucky magazine"
🔄 Synonyms of "Mucky"
11 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dirtyverb | Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. |
| wetnoun | Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. |
| soiled | (also figuratively) Dirty, defiled, stained. |
| boggy | Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. |
| miry | Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy. |
| muddyverb | Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). |
| swampy | Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. |
| sloughy | Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy. |
| marshy | Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. |
| unclean | Dirty, soiled or foul. |
| quaggynoun | Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Mucky"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wet | Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. |
| soiled | (also figuratively) Dirty, defiled, stained. |
| unclean | Dirty, soiled or foul. |
| muddy | Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). |
| dirty | Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. |
| sloughy | Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy. |
| quaggynoun | Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry. |
| swampy | Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. |
| mirynoun | Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy. |
| marshy | Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy. |
| boggynoun | Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. |
| mudcovered | Covered in mud; muddy. |
| mudded | Covered with mud. |
| guckynoun | (slang) Resembling or covered in muck or goo. |
| muddish | Resembling or characteristic of mud. |
| mudstained | Having mudstains; stained by mud. |
| gunkynoun | (colloquial) greasy, messy or dirty. |
| mussynoun | Pronunciation spelling of mercy, representing African-American Vernacular English. [(uncountable) Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.] |
| common as muck | (simile) Very common (in various senses). |
| schmutzy | messy; dirty; covered with schmutz |
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