Fetid
['fetɪd;'fiːt-] or ['fɛtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) offensively malodorous; 'a foul odor'; 'the kitchen smelled really funky' .
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Definition
(a.) Having an offensive smell; stinking.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Rancid, stinking, offensive, noisome, mephitic, strong-smelling, rank-smelling.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stinking, corrupt, foul
ANT:Inodorous, fresh, perfumed, scented, balmy
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Definition
adj. stinking: having a strong offensive odour.—ns. Fē′tidness Fē′tor Fe′tor.
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Examples
- Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A cigarette glowed amid the tangle of white hair, and the air of the room was fetid with stale tobacco smoke. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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