sloppy
adjective
1. lacking neatness or order
- a sloppy room
- sloppy habits
Similar word(s): untidy
2. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
- a sloppy floor
- a sloppy saucer
Similar word(s): wet
3. (of soil) soft and watery
Similar word(s): wet, boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
4. not fitting closely; hanging loosely
5. excessively or abnormally emotional
Similar word(s): emotional, overemotional
6. marked by great carelessness
- sloppy workmanship
Similar word(s): careless, haphazard, slapdash, slipshod
Sentences with sloppy as an adjective:
- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!