Miry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miry \Mir"y\, a. [From 2d {Mire}.]
     Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry
     road.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  miry
       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}, {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "miry":
     boggish, boggy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fenny, grimy, grubby, grungy,
     marish, marshy, messy, mirish, moorish, moory, mucky, muddy, oozy,
     paludal, paludous, plashy, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, scruffy,
     slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy,
     smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, sooty,
     splashy, sposhy, spouty, squashy, squelchy, squishy, swampish,
     swampy, turbid, uliginous, untidy