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Antonyms for turbid


Grammar : Adj
Spell : tur-bid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɜr bɪd



Definition of turbid

Origin :
  • 1620s, from Latin turbidus "muddy, full of confusion," from turbare "to confuse, bewilder," from turba "turmoil, crowd," probably from Greek tyrbe "turmoil."
  • adj cloudy
Example sentences :
  • It was almost as if it reminded me of some turbid element in history and the soul.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • With a quick spring he disappeared beneath the turbid water.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo
  • Of all this turbid activity Dobyans Verinder was the chief profiter.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Nora was gone, lost in that turbid stream which flows through our city.
  • Extract from : « Little Pollie » by Gertrude P. Dyer
  • A short voyage of a day bore them to the mouth of turbid and turbulent Missouri.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • A mullet of Guiana, found in turbid waters, where it lives by suction.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • To assuage thirst, I drank the water of the lake, turbid and slimy as it was.
  • Extract from : « The Hunters' Feast » by Mayne Reid
  • Then you will come to another stream of turbid water, and do the same there.
  • Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane
  • There are two ways by which the turbid waters become purified.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Geneva » by Jacob Abbott
  • On the one side it was turbid and gray, and perfectly opaque.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Geneva » by Jacob Abbott

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