Thesaurus:marshy

Thesaurus

marshy

English

Adjective

Sense: of, or resembling, a wetland

Detail: i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

Synonyms

• boggish
• boggy
• fennish
• fenny
• hoggy
• marish
• marshy
• miry
• moorish
• moory
• morassy
• paludal
• palustral
• palustrine
• palustrous
• poachy
• quaggy
• queachy
• sloughy
• slumpy (dialect)
• spewy
• swaly
• swampish
• swampy
• syrtic
• uliginous
• wiery

Antonyms

• firm

Hypernyms

• wet    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• dank
• fetid
• mucky
• muddy
• squelchy
• squishy

See also

• Thesaurus:wetland

Further reading

• “345. marsh” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “marshy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.