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
sloppyadjective
lacking neatness or order
"a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
sloppyadjective
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
"a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
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"
baggy, loose-fitting, sloppyadjective
not fitting closely; hanging loosely
"baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
overemotional, sloppyadjective
excessively or abnormally emotional
haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppyadjective
marked by great carelessness
"a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
Wiktionary
sloppyadjective
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
sloppyadjective
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
sloppyadjective
Imprecise or loose.
A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!
Etymology: From slop, + -y suffix.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sloppyadjective
Miry and wet: perhaps rather slabby. See Slab.
Etymology: from slop.
ChatGPT
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
Sloppy
wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road
Etymology: [From Slop.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
Anagrams for sloppy »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sloppy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sloppy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of sloppy in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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- недоизкусуренBulgarian
- schlampigGerman
- desprolijoSpanish
- huolimaton, epätarkka, vetelä, väljä, vetinenFinnish
- négligéFrench
- hanyag, felületesHungarian
- cerobohIndonesian
- ずさん, ぐちゃぐちゃ, だらしないJapanese
- kūrarirari, pakirara, hakuhakutai, hakirara, hakuraraMāori
- slordigDutch
- niechlujnyPolish
- desleixadoPortuguese
- неаккура́тный, неря́шливый, небре́жный, мо́крый, свобо́дный, сля́котныйRussian
- недбалийUkrainian
- luộm thuộmVietnamese
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