murky | Definition of murky

Synonyms and Antonyms of murky

1 being without light or without much light

I didn't like walking around the murky campground without a flashlight

Synonyms of murky

black, caliginous, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Words Related to murky

crepuscular, twilit

moonless, starless, sunless

cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster

shadowlike, shadowy, shady

gray (also grey), leaden, pale

beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms of murky

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling

glossy, lustrous, shiny

floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)

moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Antonyms of murky

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

2 causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

the murky shadows of the cemetery

Synonyms of murky

black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched

Words Related to murky

blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful

dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting

desperate, hopeless, pessimistic