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Sordidness

Definition: Sordidness

Sordidness

Noun

1. Sordid dirtiness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sordidness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

 

Synonyms: Sordidness

Synonyms: squalidness (n), squalor (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sordidness

Etymologies containing "sordidness": Sordidly. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Sordidness

"Sordidness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sordidness" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sordidness

Language Translations for "sordidness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏خسة (abjectness, baseness, ignobility, littleness, lowness, meanness, villainy), ‏دناءة (abjection, littleness, low tide, meanness, servility), ‏بذاءة (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saastaisuus (filth, foulness). (various references)

   

French

  

saleté, mesquinerie, bassesse, aspect sordide. (various references)

   

German

  

schmutzigkeit (dirtiness, filthiness, griminess, lewdness, muckiness, mussiness, nastiness, smuttiness, turbidity, unwholesomeness), Schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, smut, squalor), verkommenheit (depravity, dilapidation, squalidness, squalor, wildness), unappetitlichkeit, niedrigkeit (baseness, ignobleness, lightness, lowliness, lowness, meanness), gemeinheit (beastliness, bitchiness, coarseness, cussedness, dirty trick, disreputableness, hoggishness, infamy, lousiness, lowness, mean thing, meanness, nastiness, nasty treatment, nuisance, scurviness, skulduggery, snottiness, spitefulness, ugliness, unkindness, viciousness, vulgarity), erbärmlichkeit (abjectness, miserableness, misery, paltriness, piteousness, pitifulness, scabbiness, wretchedness), elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness), ekligkeit (beastliness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προστυχιά (baseness, cheapness, lowness, scurrility, villainy, vulgarity), φιλαργυρία (avarice, parsimony, penuriousness, stinginess), αθλιότητα (abjection, beggarliness, degradation, misery, nastiness, scrubbiness, seediness, shabbiness, squalor, trashiness, wretchedness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לכלוך (dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, filth, nastiness, soiling, squalor, stain), שפלות (baseness, decadence, humiliation, meanness, turpitude). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

piszkosság (dirtiness, grubbiness, messiness, nastiness, snottiness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sordidezza (meanness, squalor), grettezza. (various references)

   

Manx

  

trulleeid, sondid (avarice, close-fistedness, closeness, covetousness, selfishness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordidnesssay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, squalor, squelch). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poganost (obscenity), odvratnost (averse, nausea, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, unpleasantness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

suciedad (dirt, dirtiness, grubbiness, guiltiness, impurity, nastiness, uncleanliness), sordidez (manginess, misery, threadbareness), vileza (base act, disreputableness, lousiness, meanness, snottiness, turpitude, vileness), lo miserable, lo asqueroso (nastiness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

träsk (bog, fen, flow, marsh, morass, sink, slough, swamp). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sefalet (beggary, calamity, dog's life, misery, poverty, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, wretchedness), pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, squalor, uncleanliness), cimrilik (closeness, costiveness, illiberality, manginess, meanness, miserliness, nearness, parsimony, penury, stinginess), adilik (banality, baseness, commonness, contemptibility, dastardliness, dinginess, dirtiness, inferiority, lewdness, meanness, slavishness, smallness, vulgarity), çıkarcılık. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự nhớp nhúa tính hèn hạ, tính keo kiệt (miseriliness, nearness, scrimpiness, stinginess), tính bẩn thỉu (nastiness, piggery, piggishness), tính đê tiện tính tham lam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sordidness

Derivations

Words beginning with "sordidness": sordidnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sordidness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: soridness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sordidness"

Words rhyming with "sordidness" (pronounced 'Sor"did*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sordidness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-s"

-2 letters: dossiers, indorsed, indorses, rosiness, sordines.

-3 letters: dineros, dossers, dossier, drosses, essoins, indorse, nodders, noddies, oddness, ordines, osseins, rosined, seisors, seniors, sensors, session, soddens, soddies, sonders, sonsier, sordine.

-4 letters: didoes, dinero, diners, diodes, dissed, disses, donsie, dories, dosers, dossed, dosser, dosses, droids, droned, drones, enosis, eosins, essoin, ironed, irones, nodder, noesis, noised, noises, nosier.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-n-o-r-s-s-s"
 

+2 letters: sordidnesses.

 

+4 letters: disorderedness, disorderliness, sobersidedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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