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turbid

adj
/ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/

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”).

  1. derived from turbidus — “disturbed”
  2. inherited from turbide

Definitions

  1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed

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

    • turbid water
    • 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.

  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.
    • The turbid air over major cities is often described as a dust dome.

  3. Unclear

    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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Derived

turbidity, turbidly, turbidness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for turbid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA