Meaning & Definition of Sloppy in English

1. Lacking neatness or order

• "A sloppy room"

• "Sloppy habits"

2. Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

• "A sloppy floor"

• "A sloppy saucer"

3. (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"

4. Not fitting closely

• Hanging loosely

• "Baggy trousers"

• "A loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"

5. Excessively or abnormally emotional

6. Marked by great carelessness

• "A most haphazard system of record keeping"

• "Slapdash work"

• "Slipshod spelling"

• "Sloppy workmanship"