different between degraded vs squalid

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)

1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.

   • The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.

2. (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

3. (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

1. simple past tense and past participle of degrade

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin squalidus, from squalere (“to be rough or dirty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skw?l?d/

Adjective

squalid (comparative squalider, superlative squalidest)

1. Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
2. Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.

   A squalid attempt to buy votes.

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Etymology 2

Noun

squalid (plural squalids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
   • 2008, David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates (page 126)

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