murk
/məːk
/noun [mass noun]
Darkness or thick mist that makes it difficult to see: my eyes were straining to see through the murk of the rainy evening...
- She needed her time alone, away from the gloom and murk of a sickroom.
- Burst cattails and grass line the edge; the water is thick, a deep green murk, a beautiful green cocktail.
- New York water is a special brew of ferocious currents, unforgiving temperatures, treacherous murk, and apocalyptic pollution.
adjective archaic or Scottish
Murky; gloomy.The sun peered down at her from the murk grey cloud rumbling their way down their road in the sky.
Origin
Old English mirce, of Germanic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse myrkr.
Rhymes
- inappositely
- inappositeness
- inappreciable
- inappreciably
- inappreciation
- inappreciative
- inappropriate
- inappropriately
- inappropriateness
- inapt
- inaptitude
- inaptly
- self-excited
- self-executing
- self-existent
- self-explanatory
- self-expression
- self-expressive
- self-faced
- self-feeder
- self-feeding
- self-fertile
- self-fertilisation
- self-fertility
- self-fertilization