SLOPPY

haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

(adjective) marked by great carelessness; “a most haphazard system of record keeping”; “slapdash work”; “slipshod spelling”; “sloppy workmanship”

overemotional, sloppy

(adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional

baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy

(adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely; “baggy trousers”; “a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather”

sloppy

(adjective) lacking neatness or order; “a sloppy room”; “sloppy habits”

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

(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”

sloppy

(adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; “a sloppy floor”; “a sloppy saucer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

Imprecise or loose.

Synonyms

• See also careless

Anagrams

• polyps

Source: Wiktionary


Slop"py, a. [Compar. Sloppier; superl. Sloppiest.] Etym: [From Slop.]

Definition: Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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