scandalous

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskændələs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskændl̩əs/
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• General-American: /ˈskændələs/
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• General-American: /ˈskændləs/
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• rhymes with (one pronunciation) -ændləs
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• CMU ARPABET: S K AE1 N D AH0 L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English scandalouse (“disgraceful, shameful”), borrowed from Old French scandaleux (“scandalous”) (modern French scandaleux), from Medieval Latin scandalōsus, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“scandal”) + Latin -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives). Scandalum is derived from Ancient Greek σκᾰ́νδᾰλον (skắndălon, “offence, scandal; snare, trap”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Pre-Greek or Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”) (referring to a device for climbing or jumping on, such as might be used by someone setting a trap). By surface analysis, scandal + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance), or a relation to the nouns).

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: позорен (pozoren) — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Bulgarian: скандален (skandalen) — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Catalan: escandalós — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Czech: skandální — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Danish: skandaløs — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Dutch: scandaleus — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Dutch: schandalig — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Esperanto: skandala — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Finnish: skandaalinkäryinen — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Finnish: pöyristyttävä — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• French: scandaleux — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• German: skandalös — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Italian: scandaloso — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Latin: flāgitiōsus — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Latin: propudianus — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Latin: propudiosus — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Latin: scandalōsus — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Plautdietsch: schentlich — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Polish: skandaliczny — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Polish: awanturniczy — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Portuguese: escandaloso — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Romanian: scandalos — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Russian: сканда́льный (skandálʹnyj) — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Spanish: escandaloso — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Spanish: cuatiquero — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Swedish: skandalös — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Ukrainian: сканда́льний (skandálʹnyj) — of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal — see also despicable, disgraceful, shameful
• Finnish: sensaatiohakuinen — of a person: delighted by scandal
• Danish: skandaløs — of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious (cognates) — see also defamatory, malicious
• French: scandaleux — of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious (cognates) — see also defamatory, malicious
• German: skandalös — of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious (cognates) — see also defamatory, malicious
• Russian: сканда́льный (skandálʹnyj) — of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious (cognates) — see also defamatory, malicious
• Finnish: virkaan sopimaton — of a person: unfit for their office or position due to misconduct, etc.