Dictionary

turpid en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.

Meanings

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

Relateds

turpitudinous · turpidly · turpitude

Translations (1)

ko 탁(濁)한 (foul; base; wicked; morally depraved)