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Immaculate vs Squalid - What's the difference?

immaculate | squalid |

As adjectives the difference between immaculate and squalid

is that immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure while squalid is extremely dirty and unpleasant.

As a noun squalid is

(zoology) any member of the squalidae.

immaculate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
    • Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.

    Synonyms

    * spotless * undefiled * unsullied

    Derived terms

    * Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculateness

    squalid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
  • Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
    • A squalid attempt to buy votes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Squalidae.
  • * 2008 , David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates (page 126)
    • Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods