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murky

[ mur-kee ]

adjective

, murk·i·er, murk·i·est.
  1. dark, gloomy, and cheerless.

    Antonyms: cheery, bright

  2. obscure or thick with mist, haze, etc., as the air.

    Synonyms: opaque, obscure, indefinite, hazy, confusing, misty, lowering, cloudy

    Antonyms: clear

  3. (of liquid) not clear; cloudy with or as if with sediment.

    Antonyms: transparent, pellucid, limpid, clear

  4. not clearly expressed; vague; unclear; confused:

    a murky statement.



murky

/ ˈmɜːkɪ /

adjective

  1. gloomy or dark
  2. cloudy or impenetrable as with smoke or fog


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmurkily, adverb
  • ˈmurkiness, noun

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Other Words From

  • murki·ly adverb
  • murki·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of murky1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English mirky; murk, -y 1

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Synonym Study

See dark.

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Example Sentences

The actual status of Neuralink’s research is somewhat murky, and Friday’s big announcement comes as ex-employees complain of internal chaos at the company.

From Vox

It’s her job to help Cruise navigate the murky regulatory waters of autonomous vehicles.

In reality, she says, it was whatever Putin said it was, and this remained murky.

From Fortune

While details remain murky, it is linked to how the space agency sought to purchase new vehicles to bring future astronauts from space down to the surface of the moon.

From Quartz

The set-up of a shadow blocklist is complex, and as its name suggests, slightly murky.

From Digiday

I love The Affair for bravely reflecting back to us that murky grey area of not knowing.

For decades, maybe centuries (the details are murky), some people in Mexico had been venerating a kind of sanctified death figure.

What we found is a situation currently too murky to render a judgment.

The possibilities are endless, and weirdly reassuring in these disjointed and murky times.

The massacre has been transformed, without a shred of proof or evidence, into a shady skirmish in a murky secret war.

The horizon, however, was lowering and hazy, and the sun had not force enough to tear the murky veil asunder.

Outside, away from the glow of the fire and the soft lamplight, the night was chill and murky.

The same Providence whispered, that murky night, of the danger and disaster lurking near.

All blindly, he knew they were mounting stairways, were gliding through murky passages.

Against the murky background the face of Rose Lyndwood showed white in between the tumbled grey curls.

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