squalid

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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[…]
形容词 adj.
  1. 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. Showing or characterized by a contemptible lack of moral standards.
    — a squalid attempt to buy votes

词形变化

squalider comparative squalidest superlative squalids plural

词汇关系

衍生词
squalidity squalidly squalidness unsqualid

词源

词源 1
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.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin squāliduslbor.
English squalid
Learned borrowing from Latin squālidus, from squālēre (“to be rough or dirty”).
词源 2
From taxonomic name Squalidae.
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