单词 | turbid |
释义 | turbidadj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1626 |
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