turbid
/ˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "turbid water"
- "turbid wine"
- "On the 6th October, the 18th day of her illness, she presented the following phenomena: — pulse small and quick — urine yellow and turbid."
- "He seeks in vain to occupy his days with rural pursuits; he to whom the excitements of a metropolis, with all its corruption and its vices, were the sole sources of the turbid stream that he called "pleasure!""
- "He perceived more clearly the cruelty of Nature, to whom our refinement and piety are but as bubbles, hurrying downwards on the turbid waters."
- "This makes the estimation of the refractive index of the turbid liquid quite problematic."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek τύρβη (túrbē)bor.? Latin turba Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turbidusbor. Middle English turbide English turbid From Middle English turbide, borrowed from Latin turbidus (“disturbed”), from turba (“mass, throng, crowd, tumult, disturbance”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: turbide, turbidus
Inflected Forms
more turbid (comparative)
most turbid (superlative)