adjective, verb
adjective (muddier, muddiest)
1 full of or covered in mud:
a muddy field / track * muddy boots / knees * Look, you've made the floor all muddy!
2 (of a liquid) containing mud; not clear:
muddy water * a muddy pond
3 (of colours) not clear or bright:
muddy green / brown
verb (muddies, muddying, muddied, muddied) [VN] to make sth muddy:
She had muddied her white dress.
IDIOMS
muddy the waters, issue, etc. (disapproving) to make a simple situation confused and more complicated than it really is:
She deliberately muddied the waters by constantly referring to other irrelevant cases.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for muddy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does muddy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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