turbid
Adjective

turbid

  1. (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
  2. Smoky or misty.
    Synonyms: fumid, hazy, Thesaurus:nebulous
  3. Unclear; confused; obscure.
    Synonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, Thesaurus:incomprehensible, Thesaurus:vague
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