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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (6)

1. lacking neatness or order;
- Example: "a sloppy room"
- Example: "sloppy habits"

2. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material;
- Example: "a sloppy floor"
- Example: "a sloppy saucer"

3. (of soil) soft and watery;
- Example: "the ground was boggy under foot"
- Example: "a marshy coastline"
- Example: "miry roads"
- Example: "wet mucky lowland"
- Example: "muddy barnyard"
- Example: "quaggy terrain"
- Example: "the sloughy edge of the pond"
- Example: "swampy bayous"
[syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]

4. not fitting closely; hanging loosely;
- Example: "baggy trousers"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "a most haphazard system of record keeping"
- Example: "slapdash work"
- Example: "slipshod spelling"
- Example: "sloppy workmanship"
[syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy]



The 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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]