different between turpid vs turpitude

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.

Adjective

turpid (comparative more turpid, superlative most turpid)

1. Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, as translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     [...] things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

     I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!

Related terms

• turpidly
• turpitude
• turpitudinous

Anagrams

• putrid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpit?d? (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).

Noun

turpitude (countable and uncountable, plural turpitudes)

1. Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
2. An act evident of such a depravity.

Derived terms

• moral turpitude

Related terms

• turpid
• turpidly
• turpitudinous

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turpit?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?.pi.tyd/

Noun

turpitude f (plural turpitudes)

1. turpitude (depravity, wickedness)
2. turpitude (depraved or wicked act)

Further reading

• “turpitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).