Usually means: Fine, dust-like soil particles.
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  1. silty: Merriam-Webster
  2. silty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. silty: Vocabulary.com
  5. silty: Wordnik
  6. silty: Wiktionary
  7. silty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. silty: Dictionary.com
  9. Silty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. silty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. silty: Rhymezone
  12. Silty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. silty: FreeDictionary.org
  14. silty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. silty: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. silty: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (silty)

▸ adjective:  Having a noticeable amount of silt.
▸ adjective:  Resembling or characteristic of silt.

Similar:
loose, siltlike, sedimented, soily, sludgy, soilsome, roily, muddy, gravelly, sludgelike, more...

Opposite:
clear, transparent, pure, clean

Types:
clay, loam, sand, silt, clay loam, sand loam, sandy loam, loamy sand, more...

Phrases:
silty clay, silty soil, silty mud, more...

Adjectives:
fine, gray, more, sandy, brown, grained, very, grey, dark, somewhat, coarse

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     khaki,     sand,     ecru, more...

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Similar:
loose, siltlike, sedimented, soily, sludgy, soilsome, roily, muddy, gravelly, sludgelike, more...

Opposite:
clear, transparent, pure, clean

Types:
clay, loam, sand, silt, clay loam, sand loam, sandy loam, loamy sand, more...

Phrases:
silty clay, silty soil, silty mud, more...

Adjectives:
fine, gray, more, sandy, brown, grained, very, grey, dark, somewhat, coarse

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     khaki,     sand,     ecru, more...



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