Murky

Definition: Murky

Murky

Adjective

1. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters".

2. So shaded as to be dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "murky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Murky \Murk"y\, adjective. [Comparative Murkier; superlative Murkiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Murky

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Crosswords: Murky

Bitter and murky! (The Edge; writing credit: David Mamet)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Murky Business. (Une Tenebreuse Affaire) (reference)

• China's marine environmental protection law : the dragon creeping in murky waters (reference)

• In the Murky Waters of Vatican II (reference)

• Nasty plots, and Murky biz and little David Lemon (reference)

• The Murky Deep Ga1 (Ad&d Game Adventure) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Murky World of Seats (reference)

• The Murky World of Barry Adamson (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An American lobster, Homarus americanus in very murky waters. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The containment dike as seen from a distance, the murky water indicates the rich sediment sources of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A hazard of a diving marine biologist. Hammers on the head tend to discourage attack. Carcharinis Limbatus - grey shark on a murky day at the reef. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Acanthurus olivaceus - surgeonfish grazing on algae on new reef material. Demonstrates artificial reef contribution to food chain. Murky waters occurred under certain conditions of current and swell. Fish biomass increased greatly during murky water episodes. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Nicaragua

Titles, especially on the Atlantic Coast, are often murky. (references)

Kuwait

Details about non-KIA investments--such as the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation's interests in oil production, refining, and distribution--are equally murky. (references)

Nicaragua

Dispute resolution can be especially complex on the Atlantic Coast, where the division of authority between the central and regional autonomous governments is often murky. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

It left intact the murky language from the old Decision 344 which has been interpreted by the Andean Community Secretary General as not allowing second use patents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "murky": murky-looking.

Albanian

i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i vrërët (morose, surly), 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, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), i dendur (dense, frequent, hourly, impermeable, numerous, thick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير الضباب, ‏موحل (clayey, foul, mucky, muddy, puddly, slimy, sloughy, slushy, squashy), ‏معتم (cloud-capped, cloudy, dark, dim, dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, overcast), ‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, dusk, gloomy, mirk, murk, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏قاتم (black, cloudy, dark, deep, dim, dusky, gloomy, overcast, sable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), навъсен (beetle-browed, gloomy, glum, lowering, morose, saturnine, somber, sombre, surly), 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, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog). (various references)

Chinese 

糢糊 (foggy, vague). (various references)

Czech

zakalený (cloudy), temný (dark, gloomy, hollow, obscure, sad, shady, somber, sombre), pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, problematical, questionable, seamy, seedy, shady, specious, suspect, unsavory), kalný (bleary, cloudy, dim, dull, thick, turbid), špinavý (black, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid, unclean), šerý (dim, dusky, lacklustre, shadowy). (various references)

Farsi 

تیره (Black, Caliginous, Dark, Gloomy, Heavy, Ilk, Indistinct, Lurid, Muddy, Nebulous, Obscure, Overcast, Thick, Turbid). (various references)

French

sombre, obscure, nuageux, noir, boueux (mucky, muddy). (various references)

German

finster (black, blackly, dark, dim, frowning, gauntly, gloomily, gloomy, glowering, gloweringly, grim, louring, loweringly, murkily, obfuscatory, saturnine, shady, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre), dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, lightless, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely). (various references)

Greek 

σκοτεινόσ (black, dark, dim, dingy, dusk, obscure, opaque, recondite, shady, somber, sombre). (various references)

Hebrew 

קודר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), חשוך (dark, tenebrous), אפלולי (darkish, dim, dusky). (various references)

Hungarian

homályos (abstruse, apocalyptic, bleary, blurred, cloudy, darksome, dim, dusk, dusky, equivocal, foggy, frosted, fuzzy, gloomy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, lustreless, misty, nebulous, oblique, obscure, recondite, shadowy, shady, shape, stygian, transcendental, twilit, unclear, vague), borongós (dun, dusky, gray, grey), sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, Gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous). (various references)

Indonesian

gelap (black, dark, secret, unclear). (various references)

Italian

tenebroso (dark, dim, gloomy, somber, sombre), oscuro (black, dark, dim, gloomy, humble, obscure, somber, sombre), fosco (dark, dingy, dismal, dull, gloomy, grim, lurid, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

濁り (Japanese voiced consonant mark, unclear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にごり (Japanese voiced consonant mark, unclear). (various references)

Manx

mooirjeenagh (cloud, cloudy, dark, dark as weather, dull as day, going to be wet, looks like rain, overcast, threaten, watery, watery of sky), froshagh (dark). (various references)

Pig Latin

urkymay.(various references)

Portuguese

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, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), lúgubre (dire, doleful, dreary, eery, funereal, gaunt, lugubrious, lurid, mournful, sable), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), cheio de trevas. (various references)

Romanian

de nepãtruns (impenetrable), întunecos (dark, darkish, dim, dingy, gloomy, murkily, obscure, shadowy, twilight). (various references)

Russian 

мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous), taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, narrow, near, opaque, tenebrous). (various references)

Spanish

turbio (cloudy, dim, dimly, mirk, muddy, murk, roily, shady, thick, troubled, underhand), tenebroso (dark, dismal, gloomy, loweringly, mirk, murk, obfuscatory, tenebrous), oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat), lóbrego (dark, gloomy, mirk, murk). (various references)

Swedish

mulen (cloudy, overcast), dyster (angry, beetle-browed, black, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, darksome, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, heavy, humpy, in the doldrums, lugubrious, morose, sad, saturnine, sepulchral). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งมืดมัว. (various references)

Turkish

karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), kapalı (backhanded, cloistered, close, closed, cloudy, cloudyly, covered, enclosed, Gray, grey, impenetrable, indoor, muggy, off, overcast, privy, sable, sealed, secluded, shut, skyless, sullen, unopened), bulutlu (clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, nebulous, opaque, overcast, skyless), bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, out of focus, troubled, turbid), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian

хмарний (cloudy, glum, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, overcast), темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dogged, dour, gloomy, morose, overcast, somber, sombre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

u ám (dull, gloomy, heavy, overcast, tenebrous), tối tăm (dark, darkly, dismal, fuliginous, gloomy, obscure, recondite, sunless), âm u (dull, nebulous). (various references)

ater, atriorum, turbidam, turbido. (various references)

Misspellings

"Murky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jurky, lurky, marki, markly, maury, mermy, Mersky, Mirsky, Mokri, Mokyr, Morby, mormy, mruk, mugry, Mulkay, Muraki, murch, murcy, Murdy, murgi, murkey, murkie, murks, murly, mursy, Murty, Mutry, Nukri. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: murk.

-2 letters: rum, yuk, yum.

-3 letters: mu, my, um.

+1 letter: murkly.

+2 letters: murkily.

+3 letters: musketry, yarmulke.

+4 letters: yarmulkes.

+5 letters: lukewarmly.