Adjective: turpid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more turpid |
| Superlative | most turpid |
Sample Sentences
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[...] 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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like turpid
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id. See: Latin Adjectives '
turpis'.