mirky

Other forms of mirky

comparative or superlative

mirkier

comparative or superlative

mirkiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mirky

What does mirky mean?

mirky means "(of liquids) clouded as with sediment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mirky?

mirky has 2 syllables: mir-ky. The stress falls on "mir".

What is another word for mirky?

Close synonyms include cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid, murky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mirky a common word?

mirky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.