MEANING
Soft and persistently wet, resembling or forming a marsh.
Use it for
Vegetated wetlands and transitions between land and shallow water.Combine saturated ground with its characteristic plant cover.
Words that belong together
- marshy ground
- marshy margin
- marshy meadow
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The lake had a broad marshy margin.
Sedges replaced the pasture in the marshy hollow.
We kept to the dry ridge above the marshy ground.
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Word forms
- Base
- marshy
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Often evokes marsh vegetation such as sedges, grasses, or reeds, but can also describe soft wet ground without asserting a formal wetland classification. Overlaps with boggy and swampy in ordinary description. Comparative: marshier; superlative: marshiest. Related noun: marsh.
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