sloppy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: slop=py

CIDE DICTIONARY

sloppy, a. [From Slop.].

 Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sloppy, adj. (sloppier, sloppiest)
1 a (of the ground) wet with rain; full of puddles. b (of food etc.) watery and disagreeable. c (of a floor, table, etc.) wet with slops, having water etc. spilt on it.
2 unsystematic, careless, not thorough.
3 (of a garment) ill-fitting or untidy.
4 (of sentiment or talk) weakly emotional, maudlin.
5 colloq. (of the sea) choppy.

Derivative

sloppily adv. sloppiness n.

THESAURUS

sloppy

all thumbs, amateurish, aquatic, aqueous, awkward, bagging, baggy, barfy, bathetic, beat-up, bedraggled, beery, blowzy, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, boozy, botched, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, canned, careless, chintzy, clownish, cloying, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, dangling, deficient, dilapidated, dirty, disguised, disgusting, disheveled, disordered, disorderly, dowdy, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, drunk, easy, easygoing, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fingers all thumbs, flapping, flyblown, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, gloppy, gooey, graceless, grubby, grungy, gunky, gushing, gushy, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hanging, haphazard, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, icky, impotent, imprecise, in rags, indifferent, inebriated, inelegant, informal, lax, left-hand, left-handed, lenient, liquid, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, maggoty, maladroit, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mediocre, mephitic, messy, miry, mucky, muddled, muddy, mushy, mussy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseating, negligent, nostalgic, nostomanic, oafish, odious, oozy, ordurous, overindulgent, overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, permissive, pixilated, plashy, plastered, poky, ponderous, poor, promiscuous, puky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rainy, rank, relaxed, remiss, repulsive, rickety, romantic, rotten, ruinous, sappy, scabby, scraggly, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, seedy, sentimental, sentimentalized, shabby, shaky, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slack, slapdash, slatternly, slimy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbering, slobbery, slobby, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, sluttish, sodden, soft, soggy, sopping, soppy, sordid, splashy, sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, stiff, streaming, swashy, tacky, tattered, tear-jerking, teary, turbid, uncouth, unfastidious, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt, unneat, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, unwieldy, vile, vomity, waterish, watery, weak, wet, wormy, yecchy

ROGET THESAURUS

sloppy

Moisture

N moisture, moistness, humidity, humectation, madefaction, dew, serein, marsh, hygrometry, hygrometer, moist, damp, watery, madid, roric, undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, wringing wet, soaking wet, wet through to the skin, saturated, swashy, soggy, dabbled, reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy, swampy, irriguous.

Marsh

N marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash, mud, squash, slush, baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei, marsh, marshy, swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft, muddy, sloppy, squashy, paludal, moorish, moory, fenny.