1. (adj)boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged (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"
2. (adj)mucky, muddy dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
3. (adj)dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
4. (verb)cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid (of liquids) clouded as with sediment "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
5. (verb)muddy, muddy up dirty with mud
6. (verb)muddy cause to become muddy "These data would have muddied the prediction"