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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy: turbid water.
  2. adj. Heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog.
  3. adj. In a state of turmoil; muddled: turbid feelings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Properly, having the lees disturbed; in a more general sense, muddy; foul with extraneous matter; thick; not clear; used of liquids of any kind, or of color.
  2. Confused; disordered; disquieted; disturbed.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not clear; having suspended matter that scatters light passing through; having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; -- used of liquids of any kind
  2. adj. Disturbed; confused; disordered.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

Etymologies

  1. From Latin turbidus ("disturbed"), from turba ("mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin turbidus, disordered, from turba, turmoil, probably from Greek turbē. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jaime_d ". . .a bow window of milky-murky glass giving off a dark and turbid glow, a pallid photocopy of sunlight. . ." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition Aug 11, 2010

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