Turbid
['tɜːbɪd] or ['tɝbɪd]
Definition
(a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
(a.) Disturbed; confused; disordered.
Typist: Willie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Roiled, roily, unsettled, feculent, draggy, muddy, thick, cloudy, foul, not clear.
Inputed by Chris
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foul, thick, muddy, impure, unsettled, disordered, roiled
ANT:Clear, limpid, crystalline
Checker: Phyllis
Definition
adj. disordered: having the sediment disturbed: muddy: thick.—adv. Tur′bidly.—ns. Tur′bidness Turbid′ity.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But a quarter of an hour afterwards he was again in the dining-room, looking at the head with dishevelled tresses, and eyes turbid with despair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Innocent, in the mist through which she saw her father, and the prison, and the turbid living river that flowed through it and flowed on. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typist: Randall