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Definition of marshy:
Synonyms:
sloppy, wetland, inert, boggy, loose-fitting, sloughy, squashy, torpid, damp, turbid, soft, mirky, wet, sopping, swamplike, overemotional, plashy, dirty, swampy, dingy, sluggish, soggy, poachy, low-lying, muddy, spongy, waterlogged, miry, mucky, haphazard, baggy, low, murky, spongelike, muddied, cloudy, quaggy, pulpy, fenny, moory, slapdash, squishy, slipshod, doughy.
Usage examples:
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They found the meadows low and marshy, which gratified Tom who was always fearful of leaving footprints.
- "Tom Slade with the Boys Over There", Percy K. Fitzhugh. -
Ev'n his forehead's loss With willow boughs and marshy reeds was hid.
- "The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II", Ovid. -
I headed coastwards through a wide marshy valley with but few houses about, and in a short time saw the sea widening before me and presently struck the road I was seeking.
- "The Spy in Black", J. Storer Clouston.