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Turpid vs Turbid - What's the difference?

turpid | turbid |

As adjectives the difference between turpid and turbid

is that turpid is foul; base; wicked; morally depraved while turbid is having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.

turpid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
  • * 1853 , , My Novel
  • 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 turpid stream that he called "pleasure."
  • * 1856 , , as translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.
  • * 1955 , , Lolita
  • I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid , and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!

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    turbid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.
  • turbid''' water''; '''''turbid wine

    Synonyms

    * (having the lees or sediment disturbed) confused, cloudy, disordered, disturbed, roiled

    Derived terms

    * turbidity