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turbid

/ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/

turbid adjective: having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid).

Adjective

turbid (comparative more turbid, superlative most turbid)

  1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)
    • turbid water
    • turbid wine
  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.1776, Joseph Priestley, Experiments And Observations On Different Kinds Of Air
    • Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist.2012, Agnes Christina Laut, The Freebooters of the Wilderness, →ISBN
  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.2010, Adrian Mackenzie, Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures, →ISBN, page 1
    • Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.2012, Julia James, The Dark Side Of Desire, →ISBN

turbid meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

turbid in Tamil

கலங்கலான, குழப்பமான, சேறான, தெளிவற்ற, கலங்கிய, கலங்கள்

turbid in Urdu

بےترتیب, گاڑھا, گدلا, مکدر

turbid in Bengali

ঘোলা, কর্দমাক্ত

turbid in Telugu

turbid, muddy
కలుషము kaluṣamu
More languagesFewer languages
turbid in Malayalam
കലുഷമായ, കലങ്ങിയ, ഉദ്വൃത്ത, ക്ഷുബ്ധമായ
turbid in Sanskrit
कलुष kaluṣa
turbid in Indonesian
keruh
turbid in Thai
ขุ่น kùn

Examples of turbid in a sentence

  • On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid.1827, The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science:
  • He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XXIII [Uniform ed., p. 217]
  • This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic.2004, Jukka A. Räty, Kai-Erik Peiponen, Toshimitsu Asakura, UV-Visible Reflection Spectroscopy of Liquids, →ISBN, page 30:
  • The resulting impression filled with turbid mash liquor, which was hand-pumped through a tube into a separate kettle.2005, Jeff Sparrow, Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewer's Yeast, →ISBN:

All 13 example sentences with turbid

Synonyms of turbid

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All synonyms of turbid

Forms of turbid

comparativemore turbid
superlativemost turbid

Origin of turbid

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

Words formed from turbid

Questions about turbid

What does turbid mean?
Turbid means having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid).
What is turbid in Tamil?
Turbid in Tamil is கலங்கலான, குழப்பமான, சேறான. See Turbid meaning in Tamil.
How do you use turbid in a sentence?
On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid.
What part of speech is turbid?
Turbid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce turbid?
Turbid is pronounced /ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/.

Words near turbid in the dictionary

  1. Turberville
  2. Turbervilles
  3. turbeth
  4. Turbeville
  5. Turbevilles
  6. turbid
  7. turbidimeter
  8. turbidimeters
  9. turbidimetric
  10. turbidimetrical
  11. turbidimetrically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turbid (page history and authors); turbid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); turbid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); turbid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కలుషము (Telugu) (page history and authors); turbid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); कलुष (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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