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turpid

turpid adjective: foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.

Adjective

turpid (comparative more turpid, superlative most turpid)

  1. Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
    • [...] things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary
    • I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Forms of turpid

comparativemore turpid
superlativemost turpid

Origin of turpid

Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.

Questions about turpid

What does turpid mean?
Turpid means foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
What part of speech is turpid?
Turpid is an adjective.

Words near turpid in the dictionary

  1. turpentiney
  2. turpentinic
  3. turpentining
  4. turpentiny
  5. turpeth
  6. turpid
  7. turpidly
  8. turpin
  9. Turpinesque
  10. Turpinian
  11. turpins

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