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English adjective: sloppy | |||
| 1. | sloppy lacking neatness or order | ||
| Samples | A sloppy room. Sloppy habits. | ||
| Similar | untidy | ||
| Antonyms | tidy | ||
| 2. | sloppy wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | ||
| Samples | A sloppy floor. A sloppy saucer. | ||
| Similar | wet | ||
| Antonyms | dry | ||
| 3. | sloppy (of soil) soft and watery | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged | ||
| Similar | wet | ||
| Antonyms | dry | ||
| 4. | sloppy not fitting closely; hanging loosely | ||
| Samples | Baggy trousers. A loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather. | ||
| Synonyms | baggy, loose-fitting | ||
| Similar | loose | ||
| Antonyms | tight | ||
| 5. | sloppy excessively or abnormally emotional | ||
| Synonyms | overemotional | ||
| Similar | emotional | ||
| Antonyms | unemotional | ||
| 6. | sloppy marked by great carelessness | ||
| Samples | A most haphazard system of record keeping. Slapdash work. Slipshod spelling. Sloppy workmanship. | ||
| Synonyms | haphazard, slapdash, slipshod | ||
| Similar | careless | ||
| Antonyms | careful | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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