Adjective: laid
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | laid |
| Singular f. | laide |
| Plural m. | laids |
| Plural f. | laides |
Sample Sentences
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laid comme les sept péchés capitaux (ugly as the Seven Deadly Sins)
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laid comme un pou (ugly as a louse (extemely ungly))
Adjectives inflected like laid
indifférent,
cohérent,
aspérifolié,
serein,
seyant,
second,
babillard,
savant,
satané,
satiné,
saturé,
défraîchi,
spaghettifié,
saoudi,
salaud,
salant,
sciant,
schleu,
évanescent,
écartelé, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).
Verbs referencing "laid"
English Adjectives
loath, Catalan Adjectives
lleig.
Translations