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Muddy vs Marshy - What's the difference?

muddy | marshy |

As adjectives the difference between muddy and marshy

is that muddy is covered with or full of mud or wet soil while marshy is of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.

As a verb muddy

is to get mud on (something).

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 .

    marshy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
  • Growing in marshy ground.
  • Derived terms

    * marshiness