What does sloppy mean?

Definitions for sloppy
ˈslɒp islop·py

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sloppy.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. sloppyadjective

    lacking neatness or order

    "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"

  2. sloppyadjective

    wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

    "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"

  3. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterloggedadjective

    (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"

  4. baggy, loose-fitting, sloppyadjective

    not fitting closely; hanging loosely

    "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"

  5. overemotional, sloppyadjective

    excessively or abnormally emotional

  6. haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppyadjective

    marked by great carelessness

    "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

Wiktionary

  1. sloppyadjective

    Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

    The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

  2. sloppyadjective

    Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

    The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

  3. sloppyadjective

    Imprecise or loose.

    A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

  4. Etymology: From slop, + -y suffix.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sloppyadjective

    Miry and wet: perhaps rather slabby. See Slab.

    Etymology: from slop.

ChatGPT

  1. sloppy

    Sloppy generally refers to something that is carelessly done, messy, or lacks attention to detail. It can describe actions, work, appearance, or even behavior. It signifies a disregard for precision, neatness and accuracy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sloppy

    wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road

  2. Etymology: [From Slop.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SLOPPY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sloppy is ranked #118853 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sloppy surname appeared 146 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sloppy.

    96.5% or 141 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sloppy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sloppy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sloppy in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    Sloppy Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom Sloppy Steve helped write phony books.

  2. Paul Nolte:

    Even though the market closed up on Friday, more stocks were lower for the week and that points to weakness, we could see some sloppy action for the next couple of sessions.

  3. Russell Henley:

    A little bit sloppy on the back nine but made the par saves I needed to make to put pressure on Hideki. He just played incredible golf today, i wish I could have put some more pressure on him. Tough to beat 3-wood to 2 feet on 18.

  4. Kevin Maxwell:

    We don’t see a problem with instruction in most cases, we have kids who go to some of the finest colleges and institutions across the country. This is about checking boxes, sloppy record-keeping, not teaching and learning.

  5. The Saints:

    You have to take pictures with anyone who asks. You ca n’t refuse a picture with anyone. If there’s a sloppy drunk who you know just wants to put his hands on you, you just have to deal with it and do it.

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