turbid
Adjective Satellite
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
Adj
- Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
- Smoky or misty.
- Unclear; confused; obscure.
Adjective
- Thick or opaque due to stirred-up sediment.
Examples
- The new player’s strategy was so TURBID, I couldn’t understand their moves on the Words With Friends board.
- turbid water
- turbid wine
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).
Synonyms
cloudy, mirky, muddy, murky, Chinese, Greek, abstruse, ambiguous, cloudish, cloudlike, cloudly, confused, dense, disordered, disturbed, droff, enigmatic, equivocal, fathomless, foggy, foglike, fumid, fuzzy, generic, gray, hazed, hazy, impenetrable, imperspicuous, imprecise, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, infumated, inscrutable, insensible, insoluble, insolvable, mistlike, misty, mysterious, nebulose, nebulous, nonunderstandable, obscure, retruse, roiled, roky, smokelike, smoky, thick, turbid, uncertain, unclear, undecipherable, undefinable, undefined, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligible, unknowable, ununderstandable, vague, vaporous, woolly
Scrabble Score: 9
turbid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordturbid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
turbid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary