Meanings
comparative mirier · superlative miriest
- Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.First known use 14th c.
Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC2 more examples
Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCsummer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLCSynonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveResembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of soil) soft and watery
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishmyry
- Englishmiry
From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian блатист
- блатист (blatist)boggy, marshy
German sumpfig, schlammig
- sumpfigboggy, marshy
- schlammigboggy, marshy
Irish ceachrach, draoibeach
- ceachrachboggy, marshy
- draoibeachboggy, marshy
- lábachboggy, marshy
- lábánachboggy, marshy
- broghachboggy, marshy
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with miry
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Cite this entry
miry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miry
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