Miry (Adjective)
Meaning
(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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The hikers struggled to make their way through the miry terrain, their boots sinking into the wet earth.
- After the heavy rainfall, the roads became miry and impassable, forcing the town to shut down.
- The farmer's fields were miry and soggy, making it difficult to plant new crops.
- The miry conditions of the swamp made it a perfect habitat for alligators and other aquatic creatures.
- The miry ground made it hard to walk through the forest, and the group had to navigate through the dense underbrush instead.