turbid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/
Forms: form: more turbid
form: most turbid
Etymology: From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).
Senses: examples: text: turbid water
text: turbid wine
text: On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid.
ref: 1827, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science:
text: 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!"
ref: 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:
text: He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XXIII [Uniform ed., p. 217]
text: This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic.
ref: 2004, Jukka A. Räty, Kai-Erik Peiponen, Toshimitsu Asakura, UV-Visible Reflection Spectroscopy of Liquids, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The resulting impression filled with turbid mash liquor, which was hand-pumped through a tube into a separate kettle.
ref: 2005, Jeff Sparrow, Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewer's Yeast, →ISBN:
text: In the turbid state, the development of submerged vegetation is prevented by low underwater light levels.
ref: 2013, Marten Scheffer, Ecology of Shallow Lakes, →ISBN, page ix:
synonyms: confused
cloudy
disordered
disturbed
droff
roiled
glosses: Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
examples: text: Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity.
ref: 1776, Joseph Priestley, Experiments And Observations On Different Kinds Of Air:
text: Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist.
ref: 2012, Agnes Christina Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness, →ISBN:
text: The turbid air over major cities is often described as a dust dome.
ref: 2014, Thad Godish, Wayne T. Davis, Joshua S. Fu, Air Quality, →ISBN, page 112:
synonyms: word: fumid
word: hazy
word: cloudish
word: cloudlike
word: cloudly
word: cloudy
word: foggy
word: foglike
word: fumid
word: hazed
word: hazy
word: infumated
word: mistlike
word: misty
word: nebulose
word: nebulous
word: roky
word: smokelike
word: smoky
word: turbid
word: vaporous
glosses: Smoky or misty.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010, Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.
ref: 2012, Julia James, The Dark Side Of Desire, →ISBN:
text: 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).
ref: 2016, Cecilia Muratori, The First German Philosopher, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: ambiguous
word: equivocal
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: fathomless
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: unfathomable
word: ungraspable
word: unintelligible
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
word: ambiguous
word: equivocal
word: fuzzy
word: generic
word: gray
word: imperspicuous
word: imprecise
word: indeterminate
word: indefinite
word: indistinct
word: turbid
word: uncertain
word: unclear
word: undefined
word: undefinable
word: vague
word: woolly
glosses: Unclear; confused; obscure.
Derived terms: turbidity
turbidly
turbidness
Related terms: disturb
perturb
trouble
turbine
turbulence
turbulent