sordidとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔː.dɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹdɪd/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪd
• Homophone: sorted (in some varieties)

形容詞

sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest)

1. Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible.
2. Dirty or squalid.
3. Morally degrading.
   • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl

     He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky. They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.

   • 1994, The Lion King, Be Prepared musical number:

     I know it sounds sordid but you'll be rewarded, when at last I've been given my dues.

   • 2006, John C. Roberts, concurrence and dissent in part in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006)

     It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.

4. Grasping; stingy; avaricious.
5. Of a dull colour.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:greedy, Thesaurus:unclean

派生語

• sordidity
• sordidly
• sordidness

アナグラム

• 'droids, disord, dorids, droids