turbid
Thick with sediment
Turbid describes water or other liquid that is cloudy, murky, or opaque from suspended particles: The river ran turbid after the storm.
The word extends to anything muddled or confused: turbid prose, turbid thinking.
It suggests thickness and opacity rather than simple darkness—you can't see through turbid water because something is stirred up in it.
Dark and unclear
- cloudyObscured by atmosphere
- muddyObscured by silt
- siltyContaining fine earth deposits
- opaqueImpassable to light
brackish · roiled · unclear · dirty · polluted · discolored · milky · soupy
Unable to understand
- muddledIn a confused state
- unclearNot easily understood
- obscureUnknown to most
- disorderedLacking systematic arrangement
chaotic · unsettled · agitated · tumultuous · roiled · troubled · perplexed · disoriented
murky
Dark and unclear
opaque · brackish · roiled · unclear · dirty · polluted · discolored · milky · soupy · thick
confused
Unable to understand
disordered · chaotic · unsettled · agitated · tumultuous · roiled · troubled · perplexed · disoriented · befuddled
hazy
Unclear, indistinct
misty · overcast · dim · gloomy · obscured · veiled · dusky · shadowy · bleary · thick
silt
Waterborne earth particles
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- particlesMinute pieces of matter
- suspendedHalted or hanging temporarily
alluvium · deposition · settling · residue · sludge · dredge · fluvial · erosion · delta · estuary
- water qualitiesmurky, taste, odor, color, fresh
- bacterial coloniescolony, petri dish, circular, convex, raised
- terrain wordshilly, rocky, muddy, sandy, flat
- visibilityvisibility, visible, invisible, hidden, hide
- wetland featureswaterlogged, flooded, saturated, muddy, boggy
- outdoor conditionsdry, wet, humid, hot, cold
turbidclear
Without obstruction or fog
limpid · crystalline · transparent · pellucid · crystal-clear
turbidlucid
Mentally sharp and comprehensible
clear · pellucid · limpid · crystalline · transparent
- severe turbulenceIntense, dangerous mid-flight shaking
- turbulent flowIrregular, swirling fluid dynamics
- atmospheric turbulenceChaotic air movement
disturb, disturbance, disturbing, disturbed, turbulent, turbulence, perturb, unperturbed, perturbed