Definitions for turbid

turbid tur·bid

Spelling: [tur-bid]
IPA: /ˈtɜr bɪd/

Turbid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in turbid (bdirtu).

Definitions for turbid

adjective

  1. not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like; clouded; opaque; obscured:
  2. thick or dense, as smoke or clouds.
  3. confused; muddled; disturbed.

Origin of turbid

1620-30; Latin turbidus disturbed, equivalent to turb(āre) to disturb (derivative of turba turmoil) + -idus -id4

Examples for turbid

Nora was gone, lost in that turbid stream which flows through our city.

Of all this turbid activity Dobyans Verinder was the chief profiter.

With a quick spring he disappeared beneath the turbid water.

A short voyage of a day bore them to the mouth of turbid and turbulent Missouri.

It was almost as if it reminded me of some turbid element in history and the soul.

There are two ways by which the turbid waters become purified.

A mullet of Guiana, found in turbid waters, where it lives by suction.

Then you will come to another stream of turbid water, and do the same there.

On the one side it was turbid and gray, and perfectly opaque.

To assuage thirst, I drank the water of the lake, turbid and slimy as it was.

Word Value for turbid
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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