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Sordid vs Sorted - What's the difference?

sordid | sorted |

As adjectives the difference between sordid and sorted

is that sordid is dirty or squalid while sorted is put into some order by sorting.

As a verb sorted is

past tense of sort.

As an interjection sorted is

a general expression of approval.

sordid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
    • He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
  • Grasping.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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    sorted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sort)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Put into some order by sorting.
    • a sorted list of numbers
  • In good order, under control.
    • I have to get my life sorted .
  • In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.
    • Sorted for E's & Wizz'' (''song and album by UK band )

    Interjection

    sorted!
  • A general expression of approval.

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