turbid

adj

1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; not clear. (of a liquid)

   “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.”

2. Smoky or misty.

   “Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity.”

   “Involuntarily, he stepped behind some alder brush off the trail. Another flutter of wind thinning the turbid mist.”

   “The turbid air over major cities is often described as a dust dome.”

3. Unclear; confused; obscure.

   “Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo.”

   “Those turbid emotions swirled inside him again—part frustration, part anxiety.”

   “In the aforementioned paragraph 406 of the Encyclopedia, magnetic ecstasy is described as a confused and turbid experience because its content does not present itself in rational form: for this reason the state of the somnambulist should not be considered as a possible path to cognition (Erkenntnis).”