sloppy meaning and definition

SLOPPY adjective

Definition of sloppy (adjective)

1. lacking neatness or order
   • "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
2. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
   • "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
3. (of soil) soft and watery
   • "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"
   • synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
4. not fitting closely; hanging loosely
   • "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
   • synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting
5. excessively or abnormally emotional
   • synonyms: overemotional
6. marked by great carelessness
   • "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
   • synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod