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1. (of soil) soft and watery
   "muddy barnyard"
   - boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, squelchy
    
2. Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
   "muddy boots"
   - mucky
    
3. (of colour) discoloured by impurities; not bright and clear
   "a muddy white"; "muddy colours"
   - dirty, dingy, muddied
    
4. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
   "muddy coffee"
   - cloudy, mirky [archaic], murky, turbid
    
5. Not clear to the mind
   - unclear

1. Dirty with mud
   - muddy up
    
2. Cause to become unclear, confusing or more complicated
   "These data would have muddied the prediction"
    
3. Make turbid
   "muddy the water"

Derived forms: muddied, muddiest, muddying, muddies, muddier

See also: ambiguous, blurred, clarity, clearness, clouded, confusing, dirty, impure, incomprehensible, indefinite, indistinct, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, mud, muddiness, obscure, opaque, pellucidity, perplexing, puzzling, soiled, unclean, uncomprehensible, vague, wet

Type of: alter, begrime, bemire [archaic], blur, change, colly [archaic], confuse, dirty, grime, modify, obnubilate, obscure, soil

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