FETID - 10 definitions found
fetid adj 1: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented] fetid - bomok Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) fetid adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin foetidus, from foetēre to stink Date: 15th century having a heavy offensive smell <a fetid swamp> Synonyms: see malodorous • fetidly adverb • fetidness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary fetid Note: in BRIT, also use 'foetid' Fetid water or air has a very strong unpleasant smell. (FORMAL) ...the fetid river of waste. ...the fetid stench of vomit. = stinking ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary fetid ˈfetɪd adj. (also foetid) stinking. øøfetidly adv. fetidness n. [L fetidus f. fetere stink] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Fetid \Fet"id\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. fetidus, foetidus, fr. fetere, foetere, to have an ill smell, to stink: cf. F. f['e]tide.] Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. --Bacon. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms fetid a. Stinking, offensive, noisome, mephitic, rank, rancid, malodorous, strong-smelling, rank-smelling. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 155 Moby Thesaurus words for "fetid": abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, cloying, contemptible, crappy, crude, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, feculent, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gloppy, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, terrible, too bad, unclean, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy, yucky |
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