turbid

UK /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/ US /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)

turbid water

turbid wine

2

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.

Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist.

3

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.

Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.

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