Word Meanings - TURBID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. 2. Disturbed; confused; disordered. " Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners." Howell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TURBID)

• Dull
• Stupid
• stolid
• doltish
• insensible
• callous
• heavy
• gloomy
• dismal
• cloudy
• turbid
• opaque
• dowdy
• sluggish
• sad
• tiresome
• commonplace
• dead
• Muddy
• Luteous
• swampy
• clayey
• Thick
• Dense
• condensed
• inspissated
• close
• compact
• luteous
• coagulated
• muddy
• dull
• misty
• vaporous
• crowded
• numerous
• solid
• bulky
• deep
• confused
• inarticulate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TURBID)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to TURBID)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• TURBIDITY
  Turbidness.
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INSPISSATION
  The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• OPAQUE
  1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance. 2. Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)