murky

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
    — The Streets of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a dark, dull, murky, winter's night, when there is just enough damp gently stealing down to make the pavement greasy without cleansing it of any of its impurities, […]
  2. Dark, dim, gloomy.
    — Ferdinand: As I hope / For quite dayes, faire Iſſue, and long life, / With ſuch loue, as 'tis now the murkieſt den, / The moſt opportune place, the ſtrongſt ſuggeſtion, / Our worſer Genius can, shall neuer melt / Mine honor into luſt,[…]
  3. Cloudy, indistinct, obscure.
    — murky waters
  4. Dishonest, shady. broadly
    — Ever since X-Men: First Class set the series' clock back a few decades and installed Michael Fassbender's moody Magneto and James McAvoy's louche Charles Xavier as replacements for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's chess-playing pappies, the big-screen X-Men's central conflict—Xavier's Booker T. Washington-esque School For Gifted Youngsters vs. a rogue's gallery of evil mutants, crew cuts, and politicos—has gotten a lot murkier.

词形变化

murkier comparative murkiest superlative mirky alternative,dated

词汇关系

近义词
dark
衍生词
murkily murkiness murky bass
相关词
murk

词源

From Middle English mirky. Related to Old Norse myrkr, Russian мрак (mrak) and its Slavic cognates. By surface analysis, murk + -y.
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