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Word Meanings - DROVY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Turbid; muddy; filthy. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to DROVY)

  • TURBIDITY
    Turbidness.
  • MUDDY
    1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. 2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. 3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. Shak. 4. Confused, as if turbid with mud;
  • MUDDY-METTLED
    Dull-spirited. Shak.
  • TURBID
    1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. Whittier.
  • TURBIDLY
    1. In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion. 2. Proudly; haughtily. One of great merit turbidly resents them. Young.
  • MUDDY-HEADED
    Dull; stupid.
  • TURBIDNESS
    The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.
  • FILTHY
    Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;
  • INTURBIDATE
    To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.

 

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