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sloppy

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈslɒ.pi//
  • United States//ˈslɑ.pi//

Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.

adjective

  1. 1

    Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.

    The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

  2. 2

    Careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.

    The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

  3. 3

    Imprecise or loose.

    a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit

    My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.

  4. 4

    Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.

    Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one).

    The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sloppy From slop + -y.

Forms

comparative
sloppier
superlative
sloppiest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).