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adj. excessively or abnormally emotional

adj. not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

histrionic, melodramatic

adj. characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"

sloppy

adj. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"

messy, mussy

adj. dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

hurried

adj. moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"

rapid, speedy

adj. characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movement"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy"

indiscriminate

adj. not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"

haphazard, hit-or-miss

adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy

adj. in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"

lax, slack

adj. lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"

cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

disorderly

adj. undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"

affectional, affective, emotive

adj. characterized by emotion

bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy

adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

cathartic, releasing

adj. emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

charged, supercharged

adj. fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech"

funky, low-down

adj. (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues

hot-blooded

adj. prone to emotion; "hot-blooded Latin-Americans"

lyric, lyrical

adj. expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"

mind-blowing

adj. intensely affecting the mind or emotions; "spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience"; "a mind-blowing horror story"

moody, temperamental

adj. subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"

soulful

adj. full of or expressing deep emotion; "soulful eyes"; "soulful music"

warm-toned

adj. used of music

casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory

adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

unstudied, effortless

adj. "careless grace"

bedewed, dewy

adj. wet with dew

besprent

adj. sprinkled over; "glistening grass besprent with raindrops"

humid

adj. containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor; "humid air"; "humid weather"

damp, dampish, moist

adj. slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"

sodden, soppy

adj. wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"

dripping

adj. having liquid falling in drops; "in the dripping fog"; "the scene where he is singing in the rain in dripping clothes"; "there was little shelter under the dripping trees"

misty

adj. wet with mist; "the misty evening"

hydrous, hydrated

adj. containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate)

steaming, steamy

adj. filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; "a steaming kettle"; "steamy towels"

perspiring, sweaty

adj. being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"

reeking, watery

adj. wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"

showery, rainy

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

soggy, waterlogged

adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

sticky

adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"

undried

adj. still wet or moist

watery

adj. filled with water; "watery soil"

tight-fitting, close-fitting

adj. of clothing

fastidious

adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

dry

adj. opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state"

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