murksome

• mirksome

From murk +‎ -some.

• (rhotic) enPR: mûrk'səm, IPA^(key): /ˈmɜɹksəm/
• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːksəm/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ksəm
• Hyphenation: murk‧some

murksome (comparative more murksome, superlative most murksome)

1. Suggestive or indicative of murk; darksome.
   • 1837, Anne Ross Collinson, Memoir of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer:

     So, when stern Winter in his frozen vest Enfolds fair Nature's charms, the vaporous air, Surcharged and dense, repels the solar beam ; No genial ray falls on the languid earth, But, struggling with the dun, deep, murksome haze, [...]

• cimmerian, dingy, tenebrous; see also Thesaurus:dark

• murksomeness