murk

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MURK

a time or place of little or no light <a robber lying unseen in the murk>

Synonyms black, blackness, candlelight, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra

Related Words midnight; blackout, brownout, dimout; shadiness, umbrage; dullness (also dulness), somberness; cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness; dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness; half-light

Near Antonyms moonlight, starlight, sunlight; effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine; incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness

Antonyms blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness

an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency <stuck outside in the murk and the rain>

Synonyms brume, fog, gauze, mist, murk, reek, smog, soup

Related Words bank, cloud, fume, miasma, smoke, smother, steam

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