sordid
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈsɔː.dɪd/
美 /ˈsɔɹdɪd/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
— The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
- Dirty or squalid.
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Morally degrading.
— 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.
- Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
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Of a dull colour.
— Leaves sordid-tomentulose beneath
词源
Etymology tree
Latin sordēs
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin sordeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin sordidusder.
Middle English sordid
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Latin sordiduslbor.
French sordideder.
English sordid
From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Alternatively from French sordide.
Latin sordēs
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin sordeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin sordidusder.
Middle English sordid
▲
Latin sordiduslbor.
French sordideder.
English sordid
From Middle English sordide, from Latin sordidus.
Alternatively from French sordide.
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