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Webster 1913 Edition

Sloppy

Slop′py

,

Adj.

[

Com

par.

Sloppier

;

sup

erl.

Sloppiest

.]

[From

.]

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy;

as, a

sloppy

place, walk, road

.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sloppy

SLOP'PY

,

Adj.

Wet, as the ground; muddy; plashy.

Definition 2024

sloppy

sloppy

English

Adjective

sloppy ‎(comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
Imprecise or loose.
A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:careless

Derived terms

sloppiness

Translations

very wet; covered in or composed of slop

Finnish: vetinen (fi), vetelä (fi)
Maori: kūrarirari

Russian: мо́крый (ru) ‎(mókryj), сля́котный (ru) ‎(sljákotnyj)

messy; not neat, elegant, or careful

Bulgarian: недоизкусурен (bg) ‎(nedoizkusuren)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吊兒郎當 (zh), 吊儿郎当 (zh) ‎(diàorlàngdàng)
Dutch: slordig (nl)
Finnish: huolimaton
French: bâclé (fr), négligé (fr)
German: schlampig (de)

Japanese: ぐちゃぐちゃ ‎(guchagucha), ずさんな ‎(zusan na), だらしない (ja) ‎(darashinai)
Maori: hakuhakutai
Persian: شلخته (fa) ‎(šelaxte)
Portuguese: desleixado (pt)
Russian: неря́шливый (ru) ‎(nerjášlivyj), небре́жный (ru) ‎(nebréžnyj), неаккура́тный (ru) ‎(neakkurátnyj)
Spanish: desprolijo

imprecise or loose

Finnish: epätarkka (fi), väljä (fi)
Hungarian: hanyag (hu), felületes (hu)

Maori: pakirara, hakirara, hakurara
Russian: свобо́дный (ru) ‎(svobódnyj)

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