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Bedraggled vs Muddy - What's the difference?

bedraggled | muddy | Related terms |

Bedraggled is a related term of muddy.


As adjectives the difference between bedraggled and muddy

is that bedraggled is wet and limp; unkempt while muddy is covered with or full of mud or wet soil.

As verbs the difference between bedraggled and muddy

is that bedraggled is (bedraggle) while muddy is to get mud on (something).

bedraggled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wet and limp; unkempt
  • decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
  • * 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
    • She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

    Derived terms

    * bedraggledly * bedraggledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedraggle)

    • muddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
    • He slogged across the muddy field.
    Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
  • With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
    • The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the epic struggle.
  • Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
    • The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.
  • Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
  • * Burke
    • cold hearts and muddy understandings
  • * Shakespeare
    • dost think I am so muddy , so unsettled
  • (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.

    • Verb

  • To get mud on (something).
    • If you muddy your shoes don't wear them inside.
  • To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.
    • The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
  • * 2014 , Steve Rose, " Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
    • As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy .