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muddiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun muddiness has 3 senses
- muddiness(n = noun.state) sloppiness, wateriness - the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water; "the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield"; "the water's muddiness made it undrinkable"; "the sloppiness of a rainy November day" is a kind of wetness
- muddiness(n = noun.cognition) confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions" is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
- muddiness(n = noun.attribute) cloudiness, murkiness - the quality of being cloudy; Array is a kind of opacity, opaqueness
Derived form adjective muddy1
has particulars: disorientation, distraction, daze, fog, haze, half-cock, jamais vu, bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement, perplexity
has particulars: turbidity, turbidness, haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness
Derived forms adjective muddy4, adjective muddy3
CIDE DICTIONARY
muddiness, n.
- The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream. [1913 Webster]
- Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
muddiness
Turbidity
N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.
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