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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudy |
| Synonyms: | confused, dark, dense, heavy, impure, muddled, muddy, murky, obscure, polluted, roily, sedimentary, thick, unclear, unsettled |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
| Antonyms: | clear |
| Main Entry: | muddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark and cloudy |
| Synonyms: | addled, bemired, bespattered, black, blurred, boggy, caked, confused, dingy, dirty, dull, filthy, flat, foul, fuzzy, gloomy, greasy, grimy, grubby, gummy, gunky, hazy, impure, indistinct, marshy, miry, mucky, obscure, opaque, roily, sloppy, slushy, smoky, sodden, soggy, soiled, subfuse, swampy, turbid, unclean, unclear |
| Antonyms: | bright, clean, clear |
| Main Entry: | murky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light, luminous, sparkling, unobscured |
| Main Entry: | opaque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clouded, muddy |
| Synonyms: | blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Antonyms: | clear, lucid, translucent, transparent, unclouded |
| Main Entry: | riotous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaotic, wild |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, helter-skelter, insurrectionary, lawless, mutinous, out of control, rampageous, rebellious, rowdy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, unruly, violent |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concentrated, dense |
| Synonyms: | caked, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, compact, compressed, concrete, condensed, congealed, consolidated, crowded, curdled, deep, firm, fixed, gelatinous, gloppy, gooey, gummous, gummy, gunky, heavy, impenetrable, impervious, jelled, jellied, opaque, ossified, ropy, set, sloppy, solid, solidified, stiff, syrupy, thickened, turbid, viscid, viscous, vitrified |
| Antonyms: | diluted, loose, thin, watery |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dense (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | cloudy, dull, foggy, heavy, impenetrable, indistinct, muddy, obscure, soupy, turbid |
| Antonyms: | clear |
| Main Entry: | confusional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | addled, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, disturbed, perplexed, puzzled, turbid |
| Main Entry: | muddle-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | abashed, addled, addlepated, at a loss, at sea, at sixes and sevens, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, come apart, confounded, confusional, dazed, discombobulated*, disconcerted, disorganized, distracted, flummoxed, flustered, fouled up, glassy-eyed, gone*, misled, mixed up, muddled, nonplussed, not with it, out to lunch, perplexed, perturbed, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, screwy, shook up, shot to pieces, slaphappy, spaced out, stumped, taken aback, thrown, thrown off balance, turbid, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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