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- Dictionarymir·y/ˈmī(ə)rē/
adjective
- 1. very muddy or boggy: "the roads were miry in winter"
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1. : wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest Saturday Review. 2. : heavy often deep mud or slush. The troops trudged onward through the mire. 3. : a troublesome or intractable situation. found themselves in a mire of debt.
MIRY definition: 1. consisting of deep, wet, sticky earth that is difficult to move through: 2. consisting of deep…. Learn more.
Miry definition: of the nature of mire; swampy. See examples of MIRY used in a sentence.
MIRY meaning: 1. consisting of deep, wet, sticky earth that is difficult to move through: 2. consisting of deep…. Learn more.
Anything soggy, soft, and a little muddy is miry. Your bright white sneakers won't look brand new anymore after you hike along the miry riverbank in them.
Synonyms for MIRY: muddy, mucky, slimy, oozy, filthy, slushy, clayey, sludgy; Antonyms of MIRY: clean, antiseptic, sparkling, unsullied, spotless, pristine, unstained, immaculate.
Miry Sentence Examples. At last they had him consigned to a miry dungeon, and it was the king who (at the instance of the Cushite Ebed-melech) intervened for his relief, though he remained a prisoner in other quarters till the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.).
