Meaning of MURKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'murkee
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- [adj] so shaded as to be dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"
- [adj] (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
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| | Synonyms: | | cloudy, mirky, muddy, opaque, shaded, turbid |
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| | Definition: | | \Murk"y\, a. [Compar. {Murkier}; superl. {Murkiest}.] [OE.
mirke, merke, AS. myrce, mirce; akin to Icel. myrkr, Dan. &
Sw. m["o]rk.]
Dark; obscure; gloomy. ``The murkiest den.'' --Shak.
A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. --Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, besmirched, black, blackened, bleak, blind, blotchy, caliginous, clear as mud, clouded, cloudy, dark, dark-colored, darkened, darkish, darksome, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dingy, dirty, discolored, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drab, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, equivocal, filthy, foggy, foul, foxed, foxy, fuliginous, funereal, fuzzy, glooming, gloomy, glowering, grey, grim, grimy, grubby, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, inky, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murk, murksome, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, roily, semidark, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sibylline, smirched, smoky, smudgy, smutty, soiled, somber, sooty, sordid, squalid, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, subfusc, tainted, tarnished, tenebrous, threatening, transcendent, turbid, unclean, unclear, unplain, vague |
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