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meretricious meaning in Malayalam

കൃത്രിമ ശോഭയുള്ള

/ˌmɛɹɪˈtɹɪʃəs/

meretricious in Malayalam: കൃത്രിമ ശോഭയുള്ള, ബാഹ്യഭംഗിയുള്ള, പുറംപകിട്ടുള്ള, വിലകെട്ട. In English, meretricious means tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

Malayalam words for meretricious

valueless, worthless, cheap
കൃത്രിമ ശോഭയുള്ള, ബാഹ്യഭംഗിയുള്ള, പുറംപകിട്ടുള്ള, വിലകെട്ട, വിലയില്ലാത്ത, വിലകുറഞ്ഞ

English meaning of meretricious

  1. adjective Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
  2. adjective Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
  3. adjective Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

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Questions about meretricious in Malayalam

What is the meaning of meretricious in Malayalam?
Meretricious in Malayalam is കൃത്രിമ ശോഭയുള്ള, ബാഹ്യഭംഗിയുള്ള, പുറംപകിട്ടുള്ള, വിലകെട്ട.
meretricious എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Meretricious: കൃത്രിമ ശോഭയുള്ള, ബാഹ്യഭംഗിയുള്ള, പുറംപകിട്ടുള്ള, വിലകെട്ട.
What does meretricious mean in English?
Meretricious means tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

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Malayalam words from the E.K. Kurup corpus on Olam: meretricious (dataset and license). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: meretricious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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