murky

Meaning

  1. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
  2. Dark, dim, gloomy.
  3. Cloudy, indistinct, obscure.
  4. (broadly) Dishonest, shady.

Synonyms

dark
A2
dim
C2
obscure
C2
cloudy
C2
☁️
gloomy
C2
turbid
muddy
C2
mirky
clouded
21k
black
A1
shadowy
25k
dingy
32k
dirty
A2
shady
C1
somber
C2
dusk
C2
unclear
C2
dusky
41k
opaque
38k
hazy
20k
sombre
32k
haze
C2
milky
C2
mirk
miry
overcast
38k
recondite
sable
22k
saturnine
sooty
sulky
41k
sullen
30k
sunless
translucent
36k
twilight
C1
unlighted
unlit
glooming
crepuscle
gloomful
abstruse
inenubilable
angry
A2
😠
blackened
27k
bleak
C2
blear
blue
A2
blurred
C2
blurry
C2
crepuscule
Translations

sombre
düster
finster
donker

troebele

trüb
dunkel
touffu
obscur
trouble
oscuro
somber
troebel
Frequency

22k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɜː(ɹ)ki/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
mirky
Cognate with Old Norse
myrkr
Cognate with Russian
мрак
Cognate with Serbo-Croatian
мра̑к
In summary

From Middle English mirky. Related to Old Norse myrkr, Russian мрак (mrak), Serbo-Croatian мра̑к. By surface analysis, murk + -y.

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