adj
Meaning 1
Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the marshy nature of the ground
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hoggy, quaggy, swampy
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
marshy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈmɑɹʃi/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ʃi
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CMU ARPABET: M AA1 R SH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Growing in marshy ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
(of soil) soft and watery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English mersshy, mershi, equivalent to marsh + -y.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мочурлив (močurliv) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Bulgarian: блатист (blatist) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Esperanto: marĉa — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Finnish: soinen — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- French: marécageux — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Galician: brañento — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- German: sumpfig — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- German: morastig — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- German: versumpft — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- German: moosig — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- German: moorig — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Hungarian: mocsaras — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Hungarian: lápos — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Hungarian: ingoványos — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Hungarian: posványos — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Ido: marshoza — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Ido: marshatra — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latin: palūdester — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latin: palūdōsus — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latin: paluster — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latvian: staigns — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latvian: purvains — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latvian: muklains — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Latvian: mukls — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Māori: reporepo — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Māori: pōwharuwharu — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Māori: kōreporepo — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Middle English: mersshy — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Khiamniungan Naga: tǖphīakphīak — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Polish: błotny — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Portuguese: pantanoso — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Russian: боло́тный (bolótnyj) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Russian: боло́тистый (bolótistyj) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Russian: то́пкий (tópkij) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Spanish: pantanoso — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Spanish: cenagoso — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Venetan: aquitrinoso — of, or resembling a marsh; boggy
- Hungarian: mocsári — growing in marshy ground
- Polish: błotny — growing in marshy ground
- Russian: боло́тный (bolótnyj) — growing in marshy ground