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Turbid

//ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)

    "turbid water"

  2. 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."

  3. 3
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of liquids) clouded as with sediment wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).

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