murkyadjective
uk/ˈmɜː.ki/us/ˈmɝː.ki/murky adjective (DARK/DIRTY)
dark and dirty or difficult to see through:
The river was brown and murky after the storm.
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Opaque
- cloudy
- dense
- frosted
- mist
- misty
- murk
- opaque
- thick
- turbid
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Describing bad weather
murky adjective (UNPLEASANT SITUATION)
used to describe a situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are not clear:
He became involved in the murky world of international drug-dealing.
I don't want to get into the murky waters of family arguments.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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Uncertainty