muddyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʌdi]
• 韻: -ʌdi

形容詞

muddy (comparative muddier, superlative muddiest)

1. Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.

   He slogged across the muddy field.

   Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.

2. With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.

   The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the epic struggle.

3. Not clear; mixed up or blurry.

   The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

4. Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:

     cold hearts and muddy understandings

   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled

5. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.

同意語

• clatchy (Scotland)

派生語

動詞

muddy (三人称単数 現在形 muddies, 現在分詞 muddying, 過去形および過去分詞形 muddied)

1. (transitive) To get mud on (something).

   If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.

2. (transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.

   The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.

   • 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:

     As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy.

   • 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021:

     It may have been effective at conveying the confusion of the situation, but it didn’t make for terribly thrilling scenes. The blurry camerawork (quite literally at times) and rapid-fire editing meant that exchanges of blows that should have been viscerally thrilling were often muddied, good for capturing the mood but not much fun to watch.

3. To mute of color.

   The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colors to a dull and washed look.

派生語

• muddy up
• muddy the waters