murky

murky

adjective \ˈmər-kē\

murk·i·ermurk·i·est

Definition of MURKY

1

: characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke

2

: characterized by thickness and heaviness of air : foggy, misty

3

: darkly vague or obscure <murky official rhetoric>

— murk·i·ly \-kə-lē\ adverb

— murk·i·ness \-kē-nəs\ noun

Examples of MURKY

1. She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
2. a politician with a murky past

First Known Use of MURKY

14th century

Related to MURKY

Synonyms

black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, dark, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Antonyms

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

Related Words

crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Rhymes with MURKY

jerky, perky, smirky, turkey, Turkey