sloppy

3 definitions found

sloppy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sloppy \Slop"py\, a. [Compar. Sloppier; superl. Sloppiest.]
     [From Slop.]
     Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped
     over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
     [1913 Webster]

sloppy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sloppy
      adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy
             habits"
      2: wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a
         sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
      3: (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, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy,
         squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
      4: not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a
         loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn:
         baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy]
      5: excessively or abnormally emotional [syn: overemotional,
         sloppy]
      6: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
         record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
         "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash,
         slipshod, sloppy]

sloppy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  219 Moby Thesaurus words for "sloppy":
     all thumbs, amateurish, aquatic, aqueous, awkward, bagging, baggy,
     barfy, bathetic, beat-up, bedraggled, beery, blowzy, blunderheaded,
     blundering, boorish, boozy, botched, bumbling, bungling,
     butterfingered, canned, careless, chintzy, clownish, cloying,
     clumsy, clumsy-fisted, dangling, deficient, dilapidated, dirty,
     disguised, disgusting, disheveled, disordered, disorderly, dowdy,
     drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, drunk, easy,
     easygoing, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fingers all thumbs,
     flapping, flyblown, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbling,
     gauche, gawkish, gawky, gloppy, gooey, graceless, grubby, grungy,
     gunky, gushing, gushy, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hanging,
     haphazard, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky,
     hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, icky, impotent, imprecise, in rags,
     indifferent, inebriated, inelegant, informal, lax, left-hand,
     left-handed, lenient, liquid, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering,
     lumpen, lumpish, maggoty, maladroit, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish,
     mediocre, mephitic, messy, miry, mucky, muddled, muddy, mushy,
     mussy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseating, negligent, nostalgic,
     nostomanic, oafish, odious, oozy, ordurous, overindulgent,
     overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, permissive,
     pixilated, plashy, plastered, poky, ponderous, poor, promiscuous,
     puky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rainy, rank, relaxed, remiss,
     repulsive, rickety, romantic, rotten, ruinous, sappy, scabby,
     scraggly, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, seedy, sentimental,
     sentimentalized, shabby, shaky, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slack,
     slapdash, slatternly, slimy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbering,
     slobbery, slobby, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy,
     sluttish, sodden, soft, soggy, sopping, soppy, sordid, splashy,
     sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, stiff,
     streaming, swashy, tacky, tattered, tear-jerking, teary, turbid,
     uncouth, unfastidious, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt,
     unneat, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, unwieldy,
     vile, vomity, waterish, watery, weak, wet, wormy, yecchy