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Synonyms for murky
ˈmɜr kimurky
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
murky
Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.
Compare synonyms for LIGHT.
Synonyms:
black, dark, dim, dismal, dusky, gloomy, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Princeton's WordNet
cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbidadjective
(of liquids) clouded as with sediment
"a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
Synonyms:
dingy, miry, waterlogged, nebulose, mucky, soggy, sloughy, sloppy, nebulous, marshy, dirty, cloudy, muddied, swampy, squashy, quaggy, muddy, boggy, mirky, turbidmurky, mirkyadjective
dark or gloomy
"a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#1640 | dark | |
#4328 | dirty | |
#4709 | cloudy | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9735 | mysterious | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#17229 | shady | |
#17805 | opaque | |
#18321 | muddy | |
#20758 | sable | |
#22327 | sloppy | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#36528 | dodgy | |
#38136 | murky | |
#38689 | shadowy | |
#45530 | dusky | |
#47762 | somber | |
#50150 | soggy | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#67890 | nebulous | |
#68626 | swampy | |
#70807 | equivocal | |
#75558 | swart | |
#86253 | marshy | |
#87608 | boggy | |
#88701 | turbid | |
#93638 | mucky | |
#95066 | waterlogged | |
#109912 | swarthy | |
#135003 | muddied | |
#279591 | miry |
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They give speeches, they've made money on their books, but also they have these kind of fixer roles that get a bit murky and a bit blurry in terms of their roles, they know how governments work, they know such a wide variety of people, and yet they're released from those types of concerns, and they can operate in this freelance entrepreneurial way around the world without very many barriers.
It's hard to find front-line war photography of the kind we've seen in Libya or Syria, the images in South Sudan are different. They describe visually the effect of the impending war, lending you a view of the civilian and military populations and providing a glimpse of life inside a murky, not clearly defined conflict.
Skokie Fire Chief Jim Walters:
I mean it’s murky, it’s murky all the way through, I was told the visibility is about three feet, we encountering the brush on the side of the canal that makes it difficult.
At this point, it’s a dream, it’s too murky at the moment. It will be tough to pass these bills.
The call is murky, it is really murky. I don't like for the president of the United States to mention an American citizen for investigation to a foreign leader. I think that is out of bounds.
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