squalid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: squal=id

CIDE DICTIONARY

squalid, a. [L. squalidus, fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.].

 Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.  [1913 Webster]
"Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire."  [1913 Webster]
"Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

squalid, adj.
1 filthy, repulsively dirty.
2 mean or poor in appearance.
3 wretched, sordid.

Derivative

squalidity n. squalidly adv. squalidness n.

Etymology

L squalidus f. squalere be rough or dirty

THESAURUS

squalid

abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down, brutal, careless, cheesy, chintzy, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, disreputable, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, impure, in rags, infamous, informal, lamentable, little, loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, monstrous, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, soily, sordid, tacky, tattered, terrible, too bad, ugly, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unmentionable, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched

ROGET THESAURUS

squalid

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.