Turpid vs Turbid - What's the difference?
turpid | turbid |
Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
* 1853 , , My Novel
* 1856 , , as translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1955 , , Lolita
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.
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)- 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."
- 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.
- 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!
Anagrams
*turbid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- turbid''' water''; '''''turbid wine