Murky

/ˈmɜː(ɹ)ki/

Synonyms for "murky" (143 found)

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Closest matches (29)

Adjective(8 words)

muddy ambiguous aphotic brumous cloudiest cloudy cryptic darkling

ambiguous amorphous amphibological besmirched black blackened bleak blind blotchy caliginousclear as mudclouded cloudy dark dark-colored darkened darkish

Noun(3 words)

blackwater cimmerian clouding

Adjective(1 words)

dark

Strong matches (43)

darksome desolate dim dimmish dimpsy dingy dirty discolored dismal double-edged double-faced drab dreary dull dun dusk dusky equivocal faded filmy

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filthy foggy foul foxed foxy fuliginous funereal fuzzy glooming gloomy glowering grey grim grimy grubby hazy

Adjective(6 words)

dense fogdim fuscous gloomy greyest haziest

Verb(1 words)

hazed

Related words (71)

indeterminate indistinct inky livid lowering misty mucky muddy murk murksome nasty nebulous nubilous obscure opaque overcast roily sable semidark shadowy

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Adjective(17 words)

indeterminate jungly mirky mistiest obscure smoggiest smoggy smokiest soupy stygian swampiest swarthiest tenebrific turbid unclearunclear diagramunclearer

Noun(2 words)

more unclearswamp ecosystems

Verb(1 words)

muddying

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries

ambiguity dimness obscurity opacity uncertainty

More specific

6 entries

ambiguous cloudy cryptic indeterminate turbid vague

Collocations

6 entries

murky atmospheremurky datamurky depthsmurky ethicsmurky interpretationmurky water

Inflections

2 entries

murkier murkiest

Derivations

2 entries

murkily murkiness

similar

2 entries

opaque shaded

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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His English has a murky, muddled sound to it, don't you think?

Source: tatoeba (285558)

Tom looked into the murky water.

Source: tatoeba (3619558)

Police searched the murky lake.

Source: tatoeba (4009185)

The water was so murky that the police divers had to search for the body by feel.

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