different between scurvy vs depraved
scurvy
English
Etymology
Noun usage possibly from the adjective scurvy influenced by or a variant of scurfy. Took on meaning of Dutch scheurbuik, French scorbut (“scurvy”), possibly from Old Norse skyrbjúgr, skyr (“sour milk”) + bjúgr (“swelling, tumour”) whence the Icelandic skyrbjúgur (“scurvy”). Compare German Scharbock, Late Latin scorbutus. Alternatively from Middle Dutch, from Middle Low German.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)vi
Noun
scurvy (usually uncountable, plural scurvies)
- (medicine) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.
Synonyms
- (vitamin C deficiency disease): Barlow's disease, Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome, Cheadle's disease, land scurvy, Moeller's disease, Möller-Barlow disease, scorbutus
Derived terms
- scurvy grass
Related terms
- -scorbic
- scorbic
- ascorbic
- scorbutic
Translations
Adjective
scurvy (comparative scurvier, superlative scurviest)
- Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
- Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.
- a scurvy trick; a scurvy knave
Synonyms
- (affected with scurf or scabs): roynish, scabrous; see also Thesaurus:scabby
- (contemptible): miserable, paltry, shabby; see also Thesaurus:despicable
Derived terms
- scurvily
- scurviness
Translations
See also
- morphew
References
- scurvy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scurvy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Who Named It? last accessed 28-Mar-2007
scurvy From the web:
- what scurvy means
- what scurvy looks like
- what scurvy does do to the body
- what's scurvy in french
- what scurvy dog means
- what's scurvy pirate
- what scurvy knave means
- scurvy what does that mean
depraved
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??p?e?vd/
Verb
depraved
- simple past tense and past participle of deprave
Adjective
depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)
- Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
- (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
- 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)
- There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]
- 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)
Derived terms
- depraved-heart murder
- depravedly
- depravedness
Related terms
- deprave
- depravity
Translations
Anagrams
- pervaded
depraved From the web:
- what depraved mean
- what deprived means
- what's depraved
- what depraved indifference
- what depraved heart means
- what depraved mind mean
- what depraved appetite
- depraved what does that mean
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- scurvy vs depraved
- wanton vs goatish
- ruffle vs valance
- honourable vs healthy
- classing vs systematisation
- base vs beastly
- act vs proposition
- messenger vs foregoer
- warmhearted vs pleasant
- clemency vs magnanimity
- package vs quantity
- opening vs interspace
- contrary vs mulish
- abundantly vs lavishly
- actual vs pure
- proposal vs diagram
- consequence vs return
- rebuff vs catastrophe
- spirit vs insinuation
- gusto vs stomach