stuprous
stuprous adjective: filthy, dirty; debauched. Also the alternative form of stuporous.
Adjective
stuprous (comparative more stuprous, superlative most stuprous)
- Filthy, dirty; debauched.
- seeing himselfe engaged in so stuprous a necessitie, [he] resolved upon an haughty enterprize[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 33, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- With the cry of a tigress bending over her cub, he disengaged Guidon, who lay there unconscious, bruised, his clothes in rags and stained with stuprous filth; kissed him and raised him in his arms.2008, trans. Georges Eekhoud, A Strange Love, Olympia Press, 2008
Also used as
stuprous is also the alternative form of stuporous.
Forms of stuprous
| comparative | more stuprous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stuprous |
Origin of stuprous
From Latin stuprōsus, from stuprum.
Variant forms.
Questions about stuprous
- What does stuprous mean?
- Stuprous means filthy, dirty; debauched.
- What part of speech is stuprous?
- Stuprous is an adjective.
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