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Meaning of MIRY

Pronunciation:  'mIree

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  (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"
 
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 Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy, wet
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mir"y\, a. [From 2d {Mire}.]
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry
road.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: boggish, boggy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fenny, grimy, grubby, grungy, marish, marshy, messy, mirish, moorish, moory, mucky, muddy, oozy, paludal, paludous, plashy, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, scruffy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, sooty, splashy, sposhy, spouty, squashy, squelchy, squishy, swampish, swampy, turbid, uliginous, untidy
 

 

 

 

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