murk
/məːk
/noun [mass noun]
Darkness or thick mist that makes it difficult to see: my eyes were straining to see through the murk of the rainy evening...
- She needed her time alone, away from the gloom and murk of a sickroom.
- Burst cattails and grass line the edge; the water is thick, a deep green murk, a beautiful green cocktail.
- New York water is a special brew of ferocious currents, unforgiving temperatures, treacherous murk, and apocalyptic pollution.
adjective archaic or Scottish
Murky; gloomy.The sun peered down at her from the murk grey cloud rumbling their way down their road in the sky.
Origin
Old English mirce, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse myrkr.
Rhymes
- opinion polling
- opinion pollster
- opinion survey
- opinion trade
- opinious
- opioid
- opiomania
- O. Pip
- opisometer
- opisthe
- opisthion
- opistho-
- opisthobranch
- Opisthobranchia
- opisthobranchiate
- opisthocoelian
- opisthocoelous
- opisthodome
- opisthodomos
- opisthodomus
- opisthodont
- opisthogastric
- opisthoglyph
- opisthoglyphic
- opisthoglyphous