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Sloppy vs Scruffy - What's the difference?

sloppy | scruffy |

Scruffy is a antonym of sloppy.



As adjectives the difference between sloppy and scruffy

is that sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop while scruffy is untidy in appearance.

As a noun scruffy is

{{cx|informal|lang=en}} An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".

sloppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
  • The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  • Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
  • The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
  • Imprecise or loose.
  • A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * sloppiness

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    scruffy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • untidy in appearance
  • See also

    * scruff

    Noun

    (scruffies)
  • An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".