Sloppy vs Slimy - What's the difference?
sloppy | slimy |
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
Imprecise or loose.
Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
(slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.
A ponyfish.
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)- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!
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English
Adjective
(er)- Slimy things did crawl with legs
- Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.