murky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

murky
    adj 1: (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid";
           "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: {cloudy}, {muddy},
           {mirky}, {murky}, {turbid}]
    2: dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-
       blackened lamps" [syn: {murky}, {mirky}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Murky \Murk"y\, a. [Compar. {Murkier}; superl. {Murkiest}.] [OE.
   mirke, merke, AS. myrce, mirce; akin to Icel. myrkr, Dan. &
   Sw. m["o]rk.]
   1. Dark; gloomy. "The murkiest den." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Obscured by haze or mist; clouded; turbid; as, poor
      visibility in the murky water.
      [PJC]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "murky":
      ambiguous, amorphous, amphibological, besmirched, black, blackened,
      bleak, blind, blotchy, caliginous, clear as mud, clouded, cloudy,
      dark, dark-colored, darkened, darkish, darksome, dim, dimmish,
      dimpsy, dingy, dirty, discolored, dismal, double-edged,
      double-faced, drab, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, equivocal, filthy,
      foggy, foul, foxed, foxy, fuliginous, funereal, fuzzy, glooming,
      gloomy, glowering, grey, grim, grimy, grubby, hazy, indeterminate,
      indistinct, inky, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murk, murksome,
      nasty, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, roily,
      semidark, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sibylline, smirched, smoky,
      smudgy, smutty, soiled, somber, sooty, sordid, squalid, stained,
      stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, subfusc, tainted,
      tarnished, tenebrous, threatening, transcendent, turbid, unclean,
      unclear, unplain, vague