adj
Meaning 1
Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- swampy land
- swampy armpits
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
swampy
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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adj
Meaning 2
Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones.
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, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From swamp + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian sumpich (“swampy”), Dutch sompig, zompig (“swampy, soggy”), German sumpfig (“swampy”), Swedish sumpig (“swampy”).
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мочурлив (močurliv) — wet like a swamp
- Bulgarian: блатист (blatist) — wet like a swamp
- Catalan: pantanós — wet like a swamp
- Dutch: zompig — wet like a swamp
- Dutch: drassig — wet like a swamp
- Esperanto: marĉa — wet like a swamp
- Finnish: soinen — wet like a swamp
- Galician: brañento — wet like a swamp
- German: sumpfig — wet like a swamp
- Hungarian: mocsaras — wet like a swamp
- Hungarian: ingoványos — wet like a swamp
- Ido: marshoza — wet like a swamp
- Ido: marshatra — wet like a swamp
- Italian: paludoso — wet like a swamp
- Latin: palūdester — wet like a swamp
- Latin: palūdōsus — wet like a swamp
- Latin: paluster — wet like a swamp
- Latvian: staigns — wet like a swamp
- Latvian: purvains — wet like a swamp
- Latvian: muklains — wet like a swamp
- Latvian: mukls — wet like a swamp
- Māori: kōreporepo — wet like a swamp
- Polish: bagnisty — wet like a swamp
- Polish: błotnisty — wet like a swamp
- Polish: bagienny — wet like a swamp
- Polish: błotny — wet like a swamp
- Portuguese: pantanoso — wet like a swamp
- Russian: боло́тистый (bolótistyj) — wet like a swamp
- Serbo-Croatian: močvaran — wet like a swamp
- Serbo-Croatian: močvarni — wet like a swamp
- Slovene: močviren — wet like a swamp
- Lower Sorbian: bagnity — wet like a swamp
- Lower Sorbian: tymjeńcowaty — wet like a swamp
- Lower Sorbian: tonišćaty — wet like a swamp
- Lower Sorbian: tonišćowaty — wet like a swamp
- Lower Sorbian: tonjaty — wet like a swamp
- Spanish: pantanoso — wet like a swamp
- Spanish: cenagoso — wet like a swamp
- Swahili: chepechepe — wet like a swamp
- Tagalog: malate — wet like a swamp
- Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) — wet like a swamp
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