Sloppy \Slop"py\, a. [Compar. Sloppier; superl. Sloppiest.]
[From Slop.]
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped
over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sloppy
adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
2: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
"sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod]
[also: sloppiest, sloppier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "sloppy":
all thumbs, amateurish, aquatic, aqueous, awkward, bagging, baggy,
barfy, bathetic, beat-up, bedraggled, beery, blowzy, blunderheaded,
blundering, boorish, boozy, botched, bumbling, bungling,
butterfingered, canned, careless, chintzy, clownish, cloying,
clumsy, clumsy-fisted, dangling, deficient, dilapidated, dirty,
disguised, disgusting, disheveled, disordered, disorderly, dowdy,
drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, drunk, easy,
easygoing, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fingers all thumbs,
flapping, flyblown, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbling,
gauche, gawkish, gawky, gloppy, gooey, graceless, grubby, grungy,
gunky, gushing, gushy, half-assed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hanging,
haphazard, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky,
hydrated, hydraulic, hydrous, icky, impotent, imprecise, in rags,
indifferent, inebriated, inelegant, informal, lax, left-hand,
left-handed, lenient, liquid, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering,
lumpen, lumpish, maggoty, maladroit, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish,
mediocre, mephitic, messy, miry, mucky, muddled, muddy, mushy,
mussy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseating, negligent, nostalgic,
nostomanic, oafish, odious, oozy, ordurous, overindulgent,
overpermissive, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, permissive,
pixilated, plashy, plastered, poky, ponderous, poor, promiscuous,
puky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rainy, rank, relaxed, remiss,
repulsive, rickety, romantic, rotten, ruinous, sappy, scabby,
scraggly, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, seedy, sentimental,
sentimentalized, shabby, shaky, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slack,
slapdash, slatternly, slimy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbering,
slobbery, slobby, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy,
sluttish, sodden, soft, soggy, sopping, soppy, sordid, splashy,
sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, stiff,
streaming, swashy, tacky, tattered, tear-jerking, teary, turbid,
uncouth, unfastidious, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt,
unneat, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, unwieldy,
vile, vomity, waterish, watery, weak, wet, wormy, yecchy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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