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Sloppy vs Slimy - What's the difference?

sloppy | slimy |

As adjectives the difference between sloppy and slimy

is that sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop while slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.

As a noun slimy is

a ponyfish.

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

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sloppiness

    Anagrams

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    slimy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
  • Slimy things did crawl with legs
    Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.
  • (slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.
  • Synonyms

    * (slippery) lubricous * (underhanded) conniving

    Noun

    (slimies)
  • A ponyfish.