different between degraded vs sordid
degraded
English
Etymology
See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d????e?d?d/
Adjective
degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.
- (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
- The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
Synonyms
- (deprived of dignity): humiliated
Translations
Verb
degraded
- simple past tense and past participle of degrade
degraded From the web:
- what degraded means
- what does degraded mean
- what is degraded energy
- what is degraded soil
- what is degraded land
- what is degraded by peroxisome
- what does degraded performance mean
- what is degraded dna
sordid
English
Etymology
Latin sordidus, from sord?re (“be dirty”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??.d?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??d?d/
- Homophone: sorted (in some varieties)
Adjective
sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest)
- Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
- Dirty or squalid.
- Morally degrading.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
- 1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number:
- I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.
- 2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)
- It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
- Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
- Of a dull colour.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:greedy, Thesaurus:unclean
Derived terms
- sordidity
- sordidly
- sordidness
Translations
Anagrams
- 'droids, disord, dorids, droids
Estonian
Noun
sordid
- nominative plural of sort
Romanian
Etymology
From French sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Adjective
sordid m or n (feminine singular sordid?, masculine plural sordizi, feminine and neuter plural sordide)
- sordid
Declension
sordid From the web:
- sordid meaning
- what sordid means
- sordid what does it means
- sordid meaning in urdu
- what does sordid boon mean
- what does sordid mean in english
- what does sordid affair mean
- what is sordid gain
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- degraded vs sordid
- catch vs dread
- conscientious vs rogod
- shift vs shuffling
- cheerful vs hilarious
- superior vs respectable
- worth vs standing
- impracticable vs utopian
- apportionments vs disposal
- familiarity vs chat
- dissension vs madness
- succor vs shield
- obstinate vs unteachable
- rift vs violation
- lecture vs readiness
- swallow vs lavish
- combine vs harmonize
- genuine vs staunch
- capture vs believe
- sonnet vs poesy