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 | ||