turbid
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turbid
- /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/
Where it comes from
From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).
adjective more turbid · most turbid
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Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
turbid water
Similar: confused, cloudy, disordered, disturbed, droff, roiled
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Smoky or misty.
Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity.
Similar: fumid, hazy, cloudish, cloudlike, cloudly, cloudy, foggy, foglike, hazed, infumated, mistlike, misty
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Unclear; confused; obscure.
Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo.
Similar: ambiguous, equivocal, abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless, Greek, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible
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Talk about this word "turbid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/turbid. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. turbid. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/turbid "turbid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/turbid.Cite this
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title = {turbid},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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