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单词 turbid
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turbidadj.

Brit. /ˈtəːbɪd/, U.S. /ˈtərbəd/
Etymology: < Latin turbidus full of confusion or disorder; troubled, muddy; perplexed, violent, etc.; < turba crowd, disturbance.
1.
a. Of liquid: Thick or opaque with suspended matter; not clear; cloudy, muddy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque > specific muddy or turbid
druvya1300
drublya1340
oozya1398
feculent1471
troublous1495
mudlya1500
drumlya1522
troublish?1527
puddled1559
puddly1559
suddy1587
muddy1590
droumy1605
muddled1624
turbid1626
turbidous1628
puddlish1633
muddied1642
scuddy1797
roily1823
blundered1855
jumbly1864
mudded1898
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §306 Though the Lees doe make the Liquour turbide, yet they refine the Spirits.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 4 It's Waters are turbid, and very unwholesome.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 375 At the end of some time this water becomes turbid, putrifies, and emits an ammoniacal odour.
1896 Q. Rev. Apr. 498 Gases..acted upon them [the X rays] as turbid media, stopping them by vague diffusion, as milky water stops light.
b. Of air, smoke, clouds, etc.: Thick, dense; dark.
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the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > smoky, thick, etc.
smokyc1374
thick1626
vaporo-sulphureous1676
turbid1705
grossa1822
the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid
troublyc1380
greata1398
murkc1480
mistyc1485
foggyc1487
troublea1500
grossa1592
fat1598
filthya1616
thick1626
murky1667
turbid1705
solid1807
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective]
dima1000
darkOE
troublea1327
palec1385
dullc1430
unclearc1440
unbright1534
cloudy1556
unlight1570
muddy1600
wan1601
opacous1616
filmy1642
illuminous1656
crepuscular1668
dumb1720
rayless1754
opaque1794
veilya1802
turbid1811
unlucent1819
ineffulgent1824
blear1830
unrefulgent1856
subluminous1860
subaqueous1875
shineless1882
1705 J. Philips Blenheim 145 Horrible Flames, and turbid streaming Clouds Of Smoak sulphureous.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 94 The nations, temper'd to the turbid air, Breathe deadly strife.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 330 The sun rose above the horizon, turbid at first and dimmed by mists.
1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 267 Whether the sky be clear and serene, or cloudy and turbid, whether it snows or rains.
a1831 A. Knox Remains I. 7 Turbid wreaths, Sullying joy's gilded ceilings.
c. figurative or in figurative language.
ΚΠ
1752 W. Warburton Serm. 1 John iv. 20 in Wks. (1788) V. 45 Benevolence, arising from this source, at first runs thick and turbid.
1800 Marquess Wellesley in Select. Despatches (1877) 732 It is not the nature of these inestimable blessings to spring from a turbid source.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxiii. 320 Each Feature in the Face Pinch'd through Neglect or turbid by Disgrace.
1876 C. Merivale Rom. Triumvirates vi. 121 The readers and thinkers of the day..withdrew more and more from the turbid sphere of political action.
2. figurative. Characterized by or producing confusion or obscurity of thought, feeling, etc.; mentally confused, perplexed, muddled; disturbed, troubled.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]
yblenta1225
amazed?c1225
wory?c1225
mingedc1275
willc1300
distracta1340
confounded1362
confuse1362
distraitc1374
whapedc1374
wilsomea1375
poseletc1390
distraught1393
perplexa1425
wildc1440
wiltc1440
dodemusydc1450
mistedc1450
unclearc1475
mazed1493
perplexeda1500
traversablea1500
mazyc1525
entangled1561
muddy?1571
distraughted1572
moidered1587
wondering1592
puzzled1598
plundered1601
distracted1604
uncollected1613
wildered1642
turbid1647
tosticated1650
fuddled1656
pixie-led1659
puzzling1692
bumbazed1720
maffled1820
obfuscated1822
confused1825
muddly1829
mystified1833
maze1842
obfusticatedc1844
head-scratching1849
clueless1862
flustery1862
befogged1868
deurmekaar1871
mosy1887
skewgee1890
buggered-up1893
confusticated1898
smock-ravelled1904
messed-up1913
screwed-up1943
hung up1945
lost1967
gravelled-
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 88 I had divers fits of melancholy, and such turbid intervalls that use to attend close prisoners, who for the most part, have no other companions, but confus'd troopes of wandring cogitations.
1663 A. Cowley Of Greatness in Ess. in Verse & Prose Senecio was a man of a turbid and confused wit.
1684 J. Howe Redeemer's Tears in Wks. (1862) II. 316 No grief, sorrow or sighing, which are all fled away; as there can be no other turbid passion of anykind.
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iii. ii. 90 The Perceptions of which..are confused, indistinct, turbid and encumbred Cogitations.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 245 This turbid, this fickle, fleeting Period.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. i. 57 Your sleep for many nights has been so turbid.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 207 Wesley's mind seems at this time to have been in a turbid and restless state.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxx. 228 A grimy man in a flannel shirt, hatless and with turbid red hair.
1896 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 332 The turbid utterances and twisted language of Carlyle.

Compounds

turbid-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 911 The latter membrane is turbid-looking and thickened.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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