adjective
- muddy or turbid; disturbed and cloudy
Usage: often used to describe water
Examples
- The river was roily after the heavy rains.
- Don’t drink from that roily pond water.
- The construction work made the creek roily and brown.
- Fish are harder to catch in roily water.
- The storm left the lake roily for days.
- Clear streams became roily as the cattle crossed through them.