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Swampy

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Describing land that is wet like a swamp.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to a swamp; consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy: as, swampy land.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of soil) soft and watery

Word Usage

"A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage."

Equivalent

wet

Cross Reference

marshy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

marsh

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Pompey

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

marshy wooded alluvial hilly low-lying woody verdant uninhabited muddy undulate