TURBID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turbid mean? 

• TURBID (adjective)
  The adjective TURBID has 1 sense:

1. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

  Familiarity information: TURBID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of liquids) clouded as with sediment

Synonyms:

cloudy; mirky; muddy; murky; turbid

Context example:

murky waters

Similar:

opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)

Derivation:

turbidity; turbidness (muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended)

 Context examples 

All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That beck itself was then a torrent, turbid and curbless: it tore asunder the wood, and sent a raving sound through the air, often thickened with wild rain or whirling sleet; and for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeletons.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)