turbid
Adjective
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Adjective
turbid
- (of a liquid) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear.
- 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “Final Chapter”, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 457185834 ↗, book twelfth, page 283 ↗:
- He seeks in vain to occupy his days with rural pursuits; he to whom the excitements of a metropolis, with all its corruption and its vices, were the sole sources of the turbid stream that he called "pleasure!"
- turbid water
- turbid wine
- Synonyms: confused, cloudy, disordered, disturbed, droff, roiled
- Smoky or misty.
- Synonyms: fumid, hazy, Thesaurus:nebulous
- Unclear; confused; obscure.
- Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, Thesaurus:incomprehensible, Thesaurus:vague
- French: turbide, trouble
- German: trüb
- Italian: torbido
- Portuguese: turvo
- Russian: му́тный
- Spanish: turbio
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