MARSHY (marshier, marshiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: marshier    , marshiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does marshy mean? 

• MARSHY (adjective)
  The adjective MARSHY has 1 sense:

1. (of soil) soft and watery

  Familiarity information: MARSHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSHY (adjective)

Comparative: marshier   
Superlative: marshiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of soil) soft and watery

Synonyms:

boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged

Context example:

swampy bayous

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

marsh (low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water)

 Context examples 

Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It floods the banks, extends in great lagoons over a monstrous waste of country, and forms a huge district, called locally the Gapo, which is for the most part too marshy for foot-travel and too shallow for boating.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)