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What is the adjective for muddle?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs muddle, muddy and mud which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

muddy
  1. Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
  2. With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
  3. Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
  4. Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
  5. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. boggy, marshy, swampy, miry, slimy, slushy, sodden, squelchy, waterlogged, bemired, quaggy, wet, gunky, heavy, mossy, spongy, squishy, greasy, gummy, oozy, sloppy, soft, soggy, subfuse, thick, mucky, fenny, viscous, glutinous, paludal, sludgy, gooey, gloopy, watery, viscid, sticky, clammy, mucous, claggy, clarty, muculent, scummy, yukky, mucilaginous, gelatinous, marish, gluey, clayey, difficult, clay … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “I didn't head in this direction to get all bogged down in a smelly, muddy swamp!”
      “Leave your muddy boots outside before you walk in.”
      “He was up to his armpits in muddy water.”
muddied
  1. Made dirty with mud.
  2. Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water)
  3. Made muted of color.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. opaque, cloudy, murky, clouded, turbid, foggy, muddy, hazy, soupy, smoggy, dense, blurred, dusky, heavy, milky, dull, nontranslucent, nontransparent, dirty, nubilous, nebulous, impenetrable, gloomy, dingy, filmy, frosty, impervious, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, non-transparent, misty, thick, obscure, roiled, impure, riley, riled, foul, roily, dark, miry, not bright, not pure, muted, not clear, dullish, gauzy, emulsified … more
muddlesome
  1. Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confusing, ambiguous, contradictory, inconsistent, baffling, bewildering, complicated, misleading, perplexing, puzzling, unclear, muddling, mysterious, complex, impenetrable, inexplicable, intricate, involved, mystifying, unaccountable, unfathomable, befuddling, blurring, confounding, convoluted, difficult, disorienting, labyrinthine, unsettling, wildering, mistakable, Byzantine, difficult to understand, beyond one, clear as mud … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster.”
      “Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly.”
muddled
  1. Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disorderly, chaotic, disordered, jumbled, confused, messy, cluttered, disorganised, disorganized, untidy, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled, unkempt, sloppy, messed, mussed, mussy, tousled, rumpled, littered, tumbled, dishevelled, scrambled, tangled, convoluted, topsy-turvy, pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy, upside-down, hugger-mugger, in disarray, in a mess, mixed up, in disorder, in a muddle, out of order, mixed-up, at sixes and sevens, out of place, in a jumble, upside down, shambolic, out of joint, haphazard, all over the place, haywire, orderless, unsystematic, unorganized … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Studies focusing at the state level of analysis present a muddled array of findings that suggest no clear pattern.”
      “The practical political consequences of such muddled thinking are no less deleterious.”
      “It took another few seconds for his muddled head to compute the recent events.”
muddly
  1. muddled; confused; unclear
  2. Synonyms:
      3. untidy, disorderly, disorganised, disorganized, messy, cluttered, disarrayed, disordered, jumbled, chaotic, disheveled, dishevelled, disrupted, haywire, muddled, shambolic, confused, disarranged, messed, mussed, mussy, rumpled, sloppy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, unsettled, askew, awry, littered, unorderly, upset, hugger-mugger, mixed up, pell-mell, topsy-turvy, higgledy-piggledy, upside-down, at sixes and sevens, in a clutter, in a mess, in chaos, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, upside down, in a jumble, in a muddle, every which way … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But, the reason why it's a muddly subject is because they're being thick and pointless on purpose!”
      “He's the most muddly old thing and incidentally never finishes a sentence.”
      “It was a muddly race with no pace and he is very vulnerable when he is in front.”
mudstained
  1. Having mudstains; stained by mud.
mudlined
  1. Lined with mud, particularly of a road or path.
muddyish
  1. Somewhat muddy.
mudded
  1. Covered with mud.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He approached the door, the whole time leaving a trail of mudded footprints behind him.”
      “The voice came from a mudded hollow, where a loaded cart stuck fast, an old horse and an old man striving with it in vain.”
      “Sometimes on the morrow of a rainy-day, a silk dress, mudded and wet, would be seen hanging out to dry upon this beam.”
mudproof
  1. Resistant to mud.
mudlike
  1. Resembling mud
mudless
  1. Without mud.
muddiest
  1. superlative form of muddy: most muddy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. boggiest, marshiest, swampiest, miriest, slimiest, slushiest, squelchiest, quaggiest, wettest, gunkiest, heaviest, mossiest, spongiest, squishiest, greasiest, gummiest, ooziest, sloppiest, softest, soggiest, thickest, most sodden, most waterlogged, muckiest, most fenny, most paludal, sludgiest, wateriest, most marish, most sloughy, peatiest, clammiest, most moory, mushiest, most mucous, most muculent, scummiest, most glutinous, squashiest, most yielding, yukkiest, most viscous, most saturated, clartiest, claggiest, tackiest, most uliginous, most sopping, dirtiest, filthiest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But the payroll tax became the wrong battle at the wrong time, framed in the muddiest of terms from Day 1 by Mr. Boehner's chamber.”
      “Peter Van den berg, who has been the vice-president of CfaN for 30-years said that it was the muddiest crusade field he has ever seen!”
      “I ked 'a' swallered the muddiest water as ever war found in a puddle, an' neyther frogs nor tadpoles would 'a' deterred me.”
muddling
  1. present participle of muddle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disordering, jumbling, confusing, disarranging, disorganizing, scrambling, disarraying, disturbing, discombobulating, discomposing, disrupting, mixing up, muddying, mussing, rumpling, shuffling, tousling, upsetting, disheveling, dishevelling, disjointing, dislocating, misarranging, tangling, blundering, botching, bungling, cluttering, complicating, entangling, fouling, fumbling, messing, mixing, mucking, muffing, perturbing, ravelling, raveling, ruffling, snafuing, snarling, spoiling, fouling up, jumbling up, lousing up, messing up, psyching out, stirring up, throwing off … more
muddying
  1. present participle of muddy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. soiling, begriming, dirtying, griming, miring, smirching, bemiring, besmirching, befouling, bespattering, blackening, daubing, distaining, fouling, gauming, mucking, smearing, smudging, staining, sullying, spattering, making muddy, caking with dirt, caking with mud, defiling, spotting, polluting, tainting, contaminating, tarnishing, spoiling, corrupting, marking, discolouring, discoloring, tarring, making dirty, splattering, splashing, blotting, ruining, blotching, blemishing, marring, injuring, debasing, damaging, messing up, adulterating, making impure … more
mudding
  1. present participle of mud
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