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adjective
- 1. characteristic of or resembling a swamp: "a swampy area"
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adjective. uk / ˈswɒm.pi / us / ˈswɑːm.pi / Add to word list. Swampy land is soft and very wet. Synonyms. boggy. marshy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: wetland. boggy. boreal forest. constructed wetland. fen. marshland. marshy. mire. miry. peat bog. peatland. quagmire. quicksand. reed bed. slough. swamp gas. swampland.
: consisting of, suggestive of, or resembling swamp : marshy. swampiness noun. Examples of swampy in a Sentence.
n. 1. a. An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants. b. A lowland region saturated with water. 2. A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables: a financial swamp. v. swamped, swamp·ing, swamps.
Swampy definition: of the nature of, resembling, or abounding in swamps. . See examples of SWAMPY used in a sentence.
Something that's swampy is very wet and soggy, like a swampy baseball field after four days of heavy rain. Something swampy resembles a swamp, a wetland where trees, shrubs, and other plants grow.
adjective. us / ˈswɑːm.pi / uk / ˈswɒm.pi / Add to word list. Swampy land is soft and very wet. Synonyms. boggy. marshy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: wetland. boggy. boreal forest. constructed wetland. fen. marshland. marshy. mire. miry. peat bog. peatland. quagmire. quicksand. reed bed. slough. swamp gas. swampland.
adjective. A swampy area of land is always very wet. The pipeline would need to be heated and designed to traverse swampy and mountainous land. Synonyms: boggy, waterlogged, marshy, wet More Synonyms of swampy. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. swampy in American English.
swampy. adjective. /ˈswɒmpi/ /ˈswɑːmpi/ (of land) very wet or covered with water and in which plants, trees, etc. are growing synonym marshy. swampy ground/land. The disease was common in swampy areas and near rivers. Want to learn more?
SWAMP definition: 1. (an area of) very wet, soft land: 2. to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water…. Learn more.
Some are found in more or less open plains, while others inhabit swampy districts. These plants, which appear to have grown in swampy soil, thus attained the dimensions of considerable trees. Extensive areas are permanently swampy.
