marshy

marsh·y (mär

)

adj. marsh·i·er, marsh·i·est

1. Of, resembling, or characterized by a marsh or marshes; boggy.

2. Growing in marshes.

marshi·ness n.

marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ]

adj marshier, marshiest

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) of, involving, or like a marsh

marshiness n

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Adj.

marshy - (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"

boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy

wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

marshy

adjective swampy, wet, waterlogged, spongy, boggy, fenny, miry, paludal, quaggy the broad, marshy plain of the river

Translations

marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] ADJ (marshier (compar) (marshiest (superl))) → pantanoso

marshy [ˈmɑː^rʃi] adj → marécageux/euse

marshy

adj (+er) → sumpfig; a marshy district → ein Sumpfgebiet nt

marshy [ˈmɑːʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → paludoso/a

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Adarce
bayou
boggy
Cicuta verosa
Circus Aeruginosus
Deerberry
Emberiza schoeniclus
fenny
friar's lantern
genus Sium
Helmand
ignis fatuus
jack-o'-lantern
Lathyrus palustris
maremma
marsh hare
marsh harrier
marsh pea
Melospiza georgiana

The Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swamp that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody and nobody troubling with them.

Fables by Aesop View in context

The shores were in some places high and rocky, with low marshy islands at their feet, subject to inundation, and covered with willows, poplars, and other trees that love an alluvial soil.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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