squalor
/ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/US/ˈskwɑlɚ/
squalor noun: filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty.
Noun
squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)
- Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
- The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays
- bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XII”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity
squalor meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
squalor in Urdu
- بدبختی, گندگی
squalor in Malayalam
- filth, dirt, grubbiness
- വൃത്തികേട്, അഴുക്കുപിടിച്ച സ്ഥിതി, അശുദ്ധി, അഴുക്ക്, മാലിന്യം, അളിപിളി
squalor in Kannada
- ಹೊಲಸುತನ, ಕೊಳಕುತನ
Synonyms of squalor
Forms of squalor
| plural | squalors |
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Origin of squalor
From the Latin squālor.
Words formed from squalor
- senile squalor syndrome
Words that rhyme with squalor
Questions about squalor
- What does squalor mean?
- Squalor means filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty.
- What is squalor in Urdu?
- Squalor in Urdu is بدبختی, گندگی. See Squalor meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is squalor?
- Squalor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce squalor?
- Squalor is pronounced /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of squalor?
- The plural of squalor is squalors.
Words near squalor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: squalor (page history and authors); squalor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); squalor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); squalor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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