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marshy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective marshy has 1 sense
- marshy(s = adj.all) boggy, 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" Derived form noun marsh1
CIDE DICTIONARY
marshy, a. [E. Marsh.].
- Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. [1913 Webster]
- Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
marshy
boggish, boggy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky, swampish, swampy, tacky, uliginous, undried, wet, wettishROGET THESAURUS
marshy
Marsh
N marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash, mud, squash, slush, baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei, marsh, marshy, swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft, muddy, sloppy, squashy, paludal, moorish, moory, fenny.
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