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Definition: Muddied |
MuddiedAdjective1. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "muddied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: MuddiedSynonyms: dingy (adj), dirty (adj), muddy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Muddied |
| English words defined with "muddied": dingy, dirty ♦ muddy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The lamp on the table shed a weak light over the boarded floor, muddied by the feet of the vanmen. |
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| "Muddied" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.00% of the time. "Muddied" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 52% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "muddied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | machte schlammig. (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | gelumang. (various references) | ||||
Manx | laaghit (bemired, mired). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uddiedmay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Muddied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: medised, midi'ed, modded, Muddie, ruddied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "muddied" (pronounced mu"dēd) |
| 4 | -u" d ē d | bloodied, studied. |
| 3 | -d ē d | bandied, birdied, bodied, candied, disembodied, embodied, parodied, readied, remedied, steadied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-i-m-u" | |
-1 letter: duddie, mudded. | |
-2 letters: duded. | |
-3 letters: died, dime, dude, idem. | |
-4 letters: did, die, dim, dud, due, dui, emu, med, mid, mud. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, em, id, me, mi, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-d-e-i-m-u" | |
+5 letters: dehumidified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 64 64 69 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- -.. -.. .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01100100 01100100 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u d d i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0064 0064 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47877070757170 |
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