carious

Meaning

Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten.

Synonyms

rotten

bad

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decayed

holey

leak

putrescence

putrid

putridness

rottenness

spoiled

cavitied

addled

forworn

Hyphenated as

ca‧ri‧ous

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɛə.ɹi.əs/

Etymology

From French carieux (“carious”), from carie (“decay (of bone or teeth)”) (from Latin cariēs (“rot, rottenness, corruption”), from careō (“to lack, be deprived of”), from Proto-Italic *kazēō (“to lack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).) + French -eux (“-ous”) (from Latin -ōsus (“suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘full of, prone to’”), from Old Latin -ōsos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-went-, *-wont- + *-to-)).