murk

• POS: Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

murk, a. [See Murky.].

 Dark; murky.  [1913 Webster]
"He can not see through the mantle murk."  [1913 Webster]

murk, n. 

 Darkness; mirk.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

murk, n. 

 The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

murk, n. & adj. (also mirk)
--n.
1 darkness, poor visibility.
2 air obscured by fog etc.
--adj. archaic (of night, day, place, etc.) = MURKY.

Etymology

prob. f. Scand.: cf. ON myrkr

THESAURUS

murk

amorphousness, bad light, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, brown, cast a shadow, charcoal, cloud, cloud over, cork, dark, darken, darken over, darkishness, darkness, darksomeness, deadness, denigrate, dim, dim light, dim out, dimness, dinge, dirty, drabness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, duskness, ebonize, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, flatness, fog, fogginess, foul, fuzziness, gloaming, gloom, grime, half-light, haze, indeterminateness, indistinctness, ink, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, melanize, mist, mistiness, muddy, mumbo jumbo, murkiness, mystification, nigrify, obfuscate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opacity, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, partial darkness, perplexity, semidark, shade, shadow, shapelessness, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, somber, somberness, soot, tarnish, twilight, unclarity, unclearness, unplainness, vagueness

ROGET THESAURUS

murk

Darkness

N darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.