Definitions for murky

murky murk·y

Spelling: [mur-kee]
IPA: /ˈmɜr ki/

Murky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in murky (kmruy).

Definitions for murky

adjective

  1. dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
  2. obscure or thick with mist, haze, etc., as the air.
  3. vague; unclear; confused:

Origin of murky

First recorded in 1300-50, murky is from the Middle English word mirky. See murk, -y1

Examples for murky

The match flared to a point of brilliance in the murky gloom.

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

It was murky, but we needed no light for business like this.

A murky light fell here and there from the copper-coloured clouds.

Our pursuer, overtaken by a sort of murky whirlwind, disappeared from our sight.

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

The day closed in a murky evening with a taste of smoke in the air.

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

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

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

Word Value for murky
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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