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The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.
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Meaning of "murkiest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MURKIEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MURKIEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Murkiest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MURKIEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

murkiest

Tenebrism

Tenebrism, from the Italian, tenebroso, also called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image. The technique was developed to add drama to an image through a spotlight effect, and was popular during the Baroque period of painting. The artist Caravaggio is generally credited with the invention of the style, although this technique was used much earlier by various artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, Tintoretto, and El Greco. The term is usually applied to artists from the seventeenth century onward, Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of the Baroque and a follower of Caravaggio, was an outstanding exponent of tenebrism. El Greco painted three versions of a composition with a boy, a man, and a monkey grouped in darkness around a single flame. Among the most well-known tenebrist artists are: Italian and Dutch followers of Caravaggio, Francisco Ribalta, Jusepe de Ribera, and their Spanish followers. Tenebrism is most often applied to seventeenth-century Spanish painters.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MURKIEST

muriate
muriatic acid
muricate
muricated
murices
murid
muriform
Murillo
murine
murk
murkier
murkily
murkiness
murkish
murkly
murksome
murky
murl
murlain
murly

WORDS THAT END LIKE MURKIEST

at the earliest
bulkiest
cheekiest
flakiest
freakiest
funkiest
kinkiest
kookiest
luckiest
pickiest
riskiest
shakiest
silkiest
spookiest
stickiest
stinkiest
stockiest
swankiest
tackiest
trickiest
wackiest

Synonyms and antonyms of murkiest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MURKIEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «murkiest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of murkiest

Translation of «murkiest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MURKIEST

Find out the translation of murkiest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of murkiest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «murkiest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

murkiest
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

murkiest
570 millions of speakers

English

murkiest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

murkiest
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أبشع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

murkiest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

murkiest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

murkiest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plus trouble
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Murkiest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

finstersten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

murkiest
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

murkiest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Murkiest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

murkiest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இருளார்ந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Murkiest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

murkiest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

più oscuro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

murkiest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

murkiest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mai de nepătruns
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

murkiest
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

murkiest
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

murkiest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

murkiest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of murkiest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MURKIEST»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about murkiest

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QUOTES WITH «MURKIEST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word murkiest.
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Nita Ambani
The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MURKIEST»

Discover the use of murkiest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to murkiest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lecture-free Teaching: A Learning Partnership of Science ...
MURKIEST. POINT. In Classroom Assessment Techniques (1993), Angelo and Cross describe the Minute Paper as the technique used most often and by more college teachers than any other in their book. For this simple method the teacher  ...
Bonnie S. Wood, 2009
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The two ...
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, 25 The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that  ...
William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, 1891
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The Works of William Shakespeare
... heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you. FER. As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now,—the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine ...
William Shakespeare, 1905
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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who ...
Apart from a logo projected on one wall, all the marketing material had been shoved aside. It was all feeling very rickety, and very real. chapter nine the murkiest common denominator THE UNKNOWN PUBLICITY STUNT. 144 rob walker.
Rob Walker, 2008
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Notes and Queries
64) objects to " the murkiest den "; let us examine the context. The passage runs — " As I hope for quiet days . . . the murkiest den . . . shall never melt mine honour into lust." These words suggest a scene fitted for a deed of darkness ; it means ...
‎1875
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Shakespeare's The tempest: With introduction, and notes ...
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With love such as 'tis now, the murkiest even, The most opportune place, the strongest suggestion Our worser genius can, &c. — The old text has " the murkiest den." The reading even or e'en  ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, 1890
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, 25 The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that  ...
William Shakespeare, William Aldis Wright, 1893
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The Tempest
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With love such as 'tis now, the murkiest even, The most opportune place, the strongest suggestion Our worser genius can, Sic. — The old text has " the murkiest den." The reading even or e'en  ...
William Shakespeare, 1887
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Tempest. Winter's tale
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With love such as 'tis now, the murkiest even, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, &c.~——The old text has “the murkiest den.” The reading even or e' en ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, 1881
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of ...
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With love such as 'tis now, the murkiest even, The most oppdrtune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, &c. — The old text has " the murkiest den." The reading even or e'en for ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, 1881

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MURKIEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term murkiest is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vyapam Scam: Whistle-blower Anand Rai Transferred from Indore to …
The Vyapam admission and recruitment racket has turned out to be one of the murkiest scams in the country, with more than 40 people ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»
2
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: We can't bomb our way to peace in Syria
Since its inception in 2000, the Act has allowed the media to shine a light into some of the murkiest areas of public life, to the embarrassment ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Science in theory and practice
Every year CETUP's independent, international group of scientists get together for five weeks to discuss the murkiest bits of theoretical physics ... «Black Hills Pioneer, Jul 15»
4
Rules of the game
... and the life bans on Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra, the pinning down of the villains in Indian cricket's murkiest and highly incestuous ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Long Shot Summer — scrupulously detailed account of a terrible …
Plenty of such pointers are there in the book to throw light on one of the murkiest periods of English cricket. ALSO READ: The infamous Mike ... «Cricket Country, Jul 15»
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The Sensualist
Washburn is so eager to throw light on even the murkiest bits that he makes absolutely explicit what is only hinted at in the original. «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
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State may vest powers to clear FSI for hotels, hosps with civic bodies
"The building proposals department in the municipalities is among the murkiest departments. Since it will still be involved in clearances, the ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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SERENA SLAMS SHARAPOVA & AGGIE RADWANSKA LOSES TO …
Even the headphones for my screen at my desk were 'looking at me funny,' and it did not help that it was the murkiest day by far. But after the ... «10sBalls, Jul 15»
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The fascist Ashes tour — Arthur Gilligan's visit in 1924-25
However, there was yet another murky incident to follow, perhaps the murkiest of them all, and Gilligan unfortunately found himself right at the ... «Cricket Country, Jul 15»
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Oxi in Greece: Saving the European Idea
[2] He sees no light at the end of this murkiest of tunnels. In fact, he sees a vehicle approaching. “For recovery of the Greek economy, difficult ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»

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