squalid

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈskwɒlɪd/ See IPA manual

Freq #33577

Meanings

1

adj
Extremely dirty and unpleasant.

[...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.
2

adj
Showing or characterized by a contemptible lack of moral standards.

A squalid attempt to buy votes.
3

noun
Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.

Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods[…].
4

adj
foul and run-down and repulsive

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Synonyms

4 adj · foul and run-down and... sordid

Word family

Forms squalidness

Derived forms squaliditysqualidlysqualidnessunsqualid

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin squālus Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin squālor Latin squāleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin squāliduslbor. English squalid Learned borrowing from Latin squālidus, from squālēre (“to be rough or dirty”).

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# squalid

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈskwɒlɪd/
**Frequency rank:** 33577

## Meanings
1. Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
2. Showing or characterized by a contemptible lack of moral standards.
3. Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
4. foul and run-down and repulsive

## Examples
- [...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.
- A squalid attempt to buy votes.
- Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods[…].

## Derived Forms
- squalidity
- squalidly
- squalidness
- unsqualid

## Etymology
Etymology tree Latin squālus Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin squālor Latin squāleō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin squāliduslbor. English squalid Learned borrowing from Latin squālidus, from squālēre (“to be rough or dirty”).

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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