MIRK

Definition: MIRK

MIRK

Adjective

1. Dark; gloomy; murky.

Noun

1. Darkness; gloom; murk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MIRK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

"MIRK" is a common misspelling or typo for: mark, milk, mink, mire, miry, murk, smirk.

Albanian

terr (dark, darkness, murk, obscurity, opaque), i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, dusk, gloomy, murk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, haze, mist, murk, reek, vapor, vapour), ‏ظلمة (darkness, gloominess, murk, night, opacity, shadow, sombreness, umbra), ‏ظلام (blackness, dark, gloom, gloominess, murk, night, obscurity, sadness, shade). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъгла (blur, brume, exhalation, fog, murk, vapor, vapour), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), мрачина (dusk, murk), мрак (dark, darkness, gloom, murk, night, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, shades, shadows, the opaque). (various references)

Greek 

σκότοσ (dark, darkness, dinginess, gloom, murk, obscurity), ζοφερόσ (cheerless, dismal, gloomy, murk, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Hungarian

sötétség (blackness, dark, darkness, depths, dusk, gloom, murk, murkiness, obscurity, sombreness, the dark), sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, Gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous), köd (blurring, fog, haze, mist, murk, smoke), homály (blur, darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mist, murk, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shades, shadow, twilight). (various references)

Italian

oscurit� (background, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, somberness, sombreness). (various references)

Pig Latin

irkmay.(various references)

Portuguese

trevas (dark, darkness, gloom, murk, night, obscurity, opacity), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), negrume (blackness, murk), negro (black, blackamoor, blacky, ebon, jim-crow, murk, Negro, sable, sambo), névoa (blur, cloud, damp, mist, mistiness, murk, rack, steam, vapor, vapour), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), escuridão (cloudiness, dark, darkness, dead, dusk, gloom, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, night, obscurity, opacity, opaque, shade), enevoado (dark, foggy, misty, murk, somber, sombre). (various references)

Russian 

мрак (darkness, gloom, murk, obscurity, opaque). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrak (dark, darkness, murk, obscurity), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous), tmina (blackness, murk), taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirky, murk, murky, narrow, near, opaque, tenebrous), sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, moody, murk, sullen). (various references)

Spanish

turbio (cloudy, dim, dimly, muddy, murk, murky, roily, shady, thick, troubled, underhand), tinieblas (dark, darkness, dissolution, dusk, duskiness, murk, obscurity, shades), tenebroso (dark, dismal, gloomy, loweringly, murk, murky, obfuscatory, tenebrous), oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat), oscuridad (abstruseness, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dinginess, dusk, gloom, gloominess, insignificance, insignificancy, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shadow, shadows), lóbrego (dark, gloomy, murk, murky). (various references)

Swedish

mörker (blackness, dark, darkness, gloom, gloominess, murk, nigritude, obscurity). (various references)

Thai

ความมื�". (various references)

Ukrainian

темрява (dark, darkness, gloom, murk, night, nigritude, obscure, obscureness, obscurity, opaque). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cảnh u ám (gloominess, murk), cảnh tối tăm (dismalness, gloominess, murk, night). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "MIRK": mirker, mirkest, mirkier, mirkiest, mirkily, mirks, mirky. (additional references)

Words ending with "MIRK": smirk. (additional references)

Words containing "MIRK": smirked, smirker, smirkers, smirkier, smirkiest, smirking, smirks, smirky. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: irk, kir, mir, rim.

-2 letters: mi.

+1 letter: mikra, mirks, mirky, smirk.

+2 letters: imbark, impark, karmic, kermis, mikron, milker, mirker, rumaki, smirks, smirky.

+3 letters: armlike, finmark, imbarks, imparks, irksome, kashmir, keramic, kirkman, kirkmen, kirmess, kremlin, krimmer, marking, mickler, mikrons, milkers, milkier, mirkest, mirkier, mirkily, mismark, moniker, muckier, murkier, murkily, muskier, omikron, ramekin, rampike, rimrock, rumakis, skimmer, smirked, smirker, smokier.

+4 letters: cormlike, diemaker, drumlike, finmarks, finnmark, foremilk, gimcrack, icemaker, imbarked, imparked, kashmirs, keramics, kermises, kilogram, kirigami, kremlins, krimmers, limerick, markings, maverick, milkwort, millwork, mimicker, minipark, mirkiest, misliker, mismarks, mistaker, monicker, monikers, murkiest, omikrons, overmilk, ramekins, rampikes, remaking, rimrocks, sickroom, silkworm, sitzmark, skiagram, skimmers, skimpier, skirmish, smerking, smirkers, smirkier, smirking, tamarisk, tidemark, timework, trinkums, wigmaker, wormlike.