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turbid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek τύρβη (túrbē)bor.? Latin turba Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turbidusbor. Middle English turbide English turbid From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).

Meanings

1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
   • 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!" 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “Final Chapter”, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book twelfth, page 283:
   • In the turbid state, the development of submerged vegetation is prevented by low underwater light levels. 2013, Marten Scheffer, Ecology of Shallow Lakes, →ISBN, page ix:
   • This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic. 2004, Jukka A. Räty, Kai-Erik Peiponen, Toshimitsu Asakura, UV-Visible Reflection Spectroscopy of Liquids, →ISBN, page 30:
   • The resulting impression filled with turbid mash liquor, which was hand-pumped through a tube into a separate kettle. 2005, Jeff Sparrow, Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewer's Yeast, →ISBN:
   • turbid water
   • He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters. 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XXIII [Uniform ed., p. 217]
   • turbid wine
   • On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid. 1827, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science:
2. Smoky or misty.
   • The turbid air over major cities is often described as a dust dome. 2014, Thad Godish, Wayne T. Davis, Joshua S. Fu, Air Quality, →ISBN, page 112:
   • Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity. 1776, Joseph Priestley, Experiments And Observations On Different Kinds Of Air:
   • Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist. 2012, Agnes Christina Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness, →ISBN:
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. 2010, Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures, →ISBN, page 1:
   • In the aforementioned paragraph 406 of the Encyclopedia, magnetic ecstasy is described as a confused and turbid experience because its content does not present itself in rational form: for this reason the state of the somnambulist should not be considered as a possible path to cognition (Erkenntnis). 2016, Cecilia Muratori, The First German Philosopher, →ISBN:
   • Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety. 2012, Julia James, The Dark Side Of Desire, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

turbidity · turbidly · turbidite · turbidimeter · unturbid · turbidimetric · turbidness · turbidimetry · inturbidate

Relateds

turbulence · turbulent · trouble · perturb · disturb · turbine

Synonyms

smoky · disturbed · nebulous · inapprehensible · dense · abstruse · vague · imperspicuous · tenebrose · roky · unknowable · bottomless · indistinct · woolly · fuzzy · foglike · unexplainable · retruse · fathomless · obscure · vaporous · unintelligible · incomprehensible · ungraspable · ineffable · undiscoverable · imprecise · murky · gray · cloudly · undecipherable · thick · confused · fumid · insoluble · indefinite · turbid · mistlike · nebulose · hazy · foggy · indeterminate · generic · misty · infumated · fumid · equivocal · ambiguous · cloudy · inexplicable · inenubilable · ambiguous · roiled · Greek · incognizable · cloudy · hazed · equivocal · cloudlike · cloudish · insensible · unclear · droff · hazy · disordered · nonunderstandable · nebulous · enigmatic · Chinese · undefined · insolvable · uncertain · unfathomable · ununderstandable · turbid · inscrutable · mysterious · undefinable · impenetrable · smokelike

Translations (56)

mi haranu (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · nl troebel (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mrj ӹрвӹнзӹкӓн (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · pl mętna (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · pt turvo (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · oc trebol (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · pl mętne (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · de trüb (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · gag bulanık (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · tr bulanık (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ru му́тная (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · cv пӑтранчӑк (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · pl mętny (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · cs kalný (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · cs zakalený (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · vec turbio (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ru му́тный (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · su lecek (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · pam malabug (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · az bulanıq (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · fi samea (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ka ამღვრეული (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · he עָכוּר (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mi kōparu (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · yue 混濁 /混浊 (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · fr trouble (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · el θολός (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · qu putka (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ru му́тное (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · yue 渾濁 /浑浊 (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · fr turbide (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · udm пож (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mi ehu (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · cmn 混濁 /混浊 (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · hu zavaros (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ca tèrbol (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mi whēranu (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ga modartha (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · id keruh (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · km ខ្វល់ (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ro tulbure (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mi kōruhi (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · grc θολερός (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · kpv гудыр (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · th ขุ่น (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · cmn 渾濁 /浑浊 (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · uk каламу́тний (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · la turbidus (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · es túrbido (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ga tiubh (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · uk му́тний (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · mhr румбыкан (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ga moirtiúil (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · ka მღვრიე (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · bg размътен (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear) · it torbido (having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear)