SLOPPY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SLOPPY?

Need another word that means the same as “sloppy”? Find 46 synonyms and 30 related words for “sloppy” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Sloppy” are: baggy, loose-fitting, haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, overemotional, careless, lackadaisical, disorganized, unmethodical, unsystematic, untidy, messy, thoughtless, inattentive, heedless, hasty, hurried, loose, not tight, roomy, runny, watery, thin, liquid, mushy, soupy, sentimental, mawkish, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, sugar-coated, syrupy

Sloppy as an Adjective

Definitions of "Sloppy" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sloppy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Soft and watery.
• Marked by great carelessness.
• Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.
• (of semi-fluid matter) containing too much liquid; watery.
• (of a garment) casual and loose-fitting.
• Not fitting closely; hanging loosely.
• Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material.
• Excessively or abnormally emotional.
• (of soil) soft and watery.
• Lacking neatness or order.
• (of literature or behaviour) weakly or foolishly sentimental.

Synonyms of "Sloppy" as an adjective (46 Words)

baggy	Not fitting closely; hanging loosely. Baggy trousers.
boggy	(of soil) soft and watery. The shrub grows naturally in boggy ground.
careless	Marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful. Careless proofreading.
cloying	Excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree. A romantic rather cloying story.
disorganized	Unable to plan one’s activities efficiently. A disorganized enterprise.
haphazard	Dependent upon or characterized by chance. The music business works in a haphazard fashion.
hasty	Excessively quick. Hasty makeshifts take the place of planning.
heedless	Characterized by careless unconcern. Heedless of the child s crying.
hurried	Done in a hurry; rushed. I ate a hurried breakfast.
inattentive	Not showing due care or attention. I was disappointed by the food and the inattentive service.
lackadaisical	Lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy. She was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical.
liquid	Having the consistency of a liquid. Liquid refreshments.
loose	Not held or tied together or contained within something. The stamp came loose.
loose-fitting	Not fitting closely; hanging loosely.
marshy	Soft and watery. A marshy coastline.
mawkish	Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way. The mawkish smell of warm beer.
messy	(of a situation) confused and difficult to deal with. A child s messy eating habits.
miry	(of soil) soft and watery. The roads were miry in winter.
mucky	Corrupt or sordid. Mucky books.
muddy	Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination. Muddy barnyard.
mushy	Effusively or insincerely emotional. Mushy effusiveness.
not tight	Closely constrained or constricted or constricting.
overemotional	Excessively or abnormally emotional. We re not an overemotional family.
quaggy	Soft and watery. Quaggy terrain.
roomy	(especially of accommodation) having plenty of room; spacious. Roomy trousers.
runny	(of a person’s nose) producing or discharging mucus. The souffl was hard on top and quite runny underneath.
saccharine	Relating to or containing sugar; sugary. Saccharine music.
sentimental	Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality. I m a sentimental old fool.
sickly	Somewhat ill or prone to illness. His usual sickly pallor.
slapdash	Marked by great carelessness. He gave a slapdash performance.
slipshod	Marked by great carelessness. His slipshod heels.
sloughy	(of soil) soft and watery. The sloughy edge of the pond.
soggy	(of soil) soft and watery. The chorus sings powerfully but the interpretation is ultimately soggy.
soupy	Mawkishly sentimental. A soupy July morning.
squashy	Easily crushed or squeezed into a different shape; having a soft consistency. A big squashy leather chair.
sugar-coated	Encrusted with sugar or syrup.
sugary	Resembling or coated in sugar. Sugary romance.
swampy	Soft and watery. Swampy bayous.
syrupy	Overly sweet. A particularly syrupy moment from a corny film.
thin	Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. A thin reedy little voice.
thoughtless	(of a person or their behaviour) not showing consideration for the needs of other people. It was thoughtless of her to have rushed out and not said where she would be going.
unmethodical	Not orderly and systematic. The project failed through unmethodical planning.
unsystematic	Not done or acting according to a fixed plan or system; unmethodical. They were relatively unsystematic in their use of the data.
untidy	Not neat and tidy. She was chronically untidy and her clothes lay where she had dropped them.
waterlogged	(of soil) soft and watery. The game was called off because of a waterlogged pitch.
watery	Overly diluted; thin and insipid. A watery fluid.

Usage Examples of "Sloppy" as an adjective

• A sloppy floor.
• A sloppy room.
• Do not make the concrete too sloppy.
• Sloppy workmanship.
• Sloppy habits.
• She wore a sloppy sweater and jeans.
• A sloppy saucer.
• Lovers of sloppy romance.
• We gave away a goal through sloppy defending.

Associations of "Sloppy" (30 Words)

adequacy	The quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily. He questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule.
arbitrarily	Without restraint in the use of authority; autocratically. Recurrent infection is arbitrarily defined as three or more infections a year.
arbitrary	Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice. An arbitrary decision.
baggy	Not fitting closely; hanging loosely. Baggy trousers.
careless	Without due thought or consideration. An impression of careless elegance.
deficient	Not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient. The documentary evidence is deficient.
disheveled	In disarray; extremely disorderly- Al Spiers. Her clothing was disheveled.
disorderly	Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing. Disorderly youths.
haphazard	Dependent upon or characterized by chance. A most haphazard system of record keeping.
inattentive	Failing to attend to the comfort or wishes of others. A particularly dull and inattentive pupil.
inconsiderate	Without proper consideration or reflection. It s inconsiderate of her to go away without telling us.
lazy	Showing a lack of care. A lazy lowland river.
loose	Make something loose untie or undo. The old man s skin hung loose and grey.
meager	Deficient in amount or quality or extent. Meager fare.
messy	(of a situation) confused and difficult to deal with. Stripping wallpaper can be a messy time consuming job.
neglectful	Failing in what duty requires. Neglectful parents.
random	Odd, unusual, or unexpected. A random choice.
randomize	Make (a set of items, people, etc.) unpredictable, unsystematic, or random in order or arrangement. You can randomize the ingredients with the tap of a button.
remiss	Lacking care or attention to duty; negligent. Remiss of you not to pay your bills.
sag	A shape that sags. She let her head sag lower and lower.
scanty	Lacking in amplitude or quantity. A scanty harvest.
scarce	Scarcely. He was scarce sixteen years old.
slapdash	Directly. Slapdash work.
slipshod	Characterized by a lack of care, thought, or organization. He d caused many problems with his slipshod management.
slovenly	Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt. Slovenly appearance.
sometimes	Occasionally, rather than all of the time. Sometimes I want to do things on my own.
sparse	Not dense. Information on earnings is sparse.
sweatshirt	A loose, warm sweater, typically made of cotton, worn when exercising or as leisurewear.
unkempt	Not neatly combed. They were unwashed and unkempt.
untidy	Not arranged neatly and in order. Untidy and casual about money.