What is the meaning of sloppy?

adjective

  • Lacking neatness or order.
    • usage: "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
  • Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material.
    • usage: "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
  • Of soil. ( soft and watery)
    • usage: "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
  • Not fitting closely; hanging loosely.
    • usage: "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
  • Excessively or abnormally emotional.
  • Marked by great carelessness.
    • usage: "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
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APAWordNet. (2010). sloppy. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/sloppy/definitions/1183749
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