Synonyms for turbid

Grammar : Adj

Spell : tur-bid

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɜr bɪd

Top 10 synonyms for turbid

Other synonyms for the word turbid

Définition 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

Antonyms for turbid

clear

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