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Squashy

Easily squashed; soft.

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Similar meaning 4

Soft 84% connected

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Soft 84% connected

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Wet 84% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Wet 84% connected

Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Sponginess 74% connected

The quality or state of being spongy.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sponginess 74% connected

The quality or state of being spongy.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 12

Boggy 92% connected

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Marshy 92% connected

Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Miry 92% connected

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mucky 92% connected

Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Muddy 92% connected

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pulpy 92% connected

Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Quaggy 92% connected

Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sloppy 92% connected

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sloughy 92% connected

Full of sloughs, miry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Soggy 92% connected

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spongy 92% connected

Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Swampy 92% connected

Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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