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Muddier

Muddy \Mud"dy\, a. [Compar. Muddier; superl. Muddiest.]

  1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

  2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

  3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.

    This muddy vesture of decay.
    --Shak.

  4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.

    Cold hearts and muddy understandings.
    --Burke.

    Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled.
    --Shak.

  5. Not clear or bright.
    --Swift.

Wiktionary
muddier

a. (en-comparative of: muddy)

WordNet
muddy

  1. 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" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloughy, swampy]

  2. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: mucky]

  3. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied]

  4. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid]

  5. [also: muddied, muddiest, muddier]

muddy

  1. v. dirty with mud [syn: muddy up]

  2. cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"

  3. make turbid; "muddy the water"

  4. [also: muddied, muddiest, muddier]

muddier

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Usage examples of "muddier".

But sure enough, the road was getting muddier by the minute, even though the rain that had caused it had stopped for a while.

The road had become gradually wetter and muddier until now it was like a glistening quagmire of churned mudflats.

As he descended, he noticed that the water became steadily muddier and more opaque.

It seemed very sudden to some of the people of the Eye, but Kesh had been watching the pool for some time, and it seemed to her much muddier than usual, as if someone were stealing drink from itwhich no one would dare: there was never enough to have all that you wanted, and stealing the water was punishable by beating or death.

He was tall, like his sister, but his hair had a paler hue, his eyes a muddier tinge.

They trudged along in silence, the track becoming muddier as they went.

Whittaker made no comment, but turned off the main track, taking an even muddier path that ran alongside the building.