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Definition of Turbid
1. Adjective. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment. "Murky waters"
Similar to: Opaque
Derivative terms: Cloudiness, Muddiness, Murk, Murkiness, Turbidity, Turbidness
Definition of Turbid
1. a. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
Definition of Turbid
1. Adjective. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turbid
1. thick or opaque with roiled sediment [adj] : TURBIDLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Turbid
1. Cloudy, as by sediment or insoluble matter in a solution. Origin: L. Turbidus, confused, disordered (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbid
Literary usage of Turbid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis: For the Identification, Separation by Albert Benjamin Prescott (1875)
"Geranium (with acid, much heat and thick vapors, turbid, dark yellow-red ...
Rosemary (with acid, strong heat but no vapors, yellow-red and turbid ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1901)
"turbid solutions of i/iooo kaolin give in test-tubes solutions over CuS04, ...
turbid solutions of potash soap have shown flocks over chloroform, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Hops are now added, usually about two- fifths of the total amount used, after
which addition the wort again becomes turbid due to the further precipitation ..."
4. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"Rivers made turbid hy the Clearing of Forests.—Land rising in successive
Terraces.—Origin of these.—Bones of extinct Quadrupeds in Lower Terrace. ..."
5. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, Sr. (2001)
"rush along like the turbid gush from the sluice of a mill-pond, as hurried, and
as easily exhausted. It was late at night ere I could part from a companion ..."
6. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"JJL« is the part of the head from the vertex to the neck behind 1. to be dirty,
fold ; spoken of a turbid torrent Job 6, 16. ..."
7. The Seasons by James Thomson (1744)
"... the turbid Stream; There gathering triple Force, rapid, and deep, It boils,
and wheels, and foams, and thunders thro'. ..."
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