fetid

fetid
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • fetid — FETÍD, Ă, fetizi, de, adj. Care exală un miros puternic şi respingător. – Din fr. fétide, lat. foetidus. Trimis de LauraGellner, 10.05.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  Fetid ≠ odorant Trimis de siveco, 03.08.2004. Sursa: Antonime  FETÍD adj. v. dezagreabil …   Dicționar Român

  • 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. [1913 Webster] Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fetid — index stale Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fetid — early 15c., from L. fetidus (commonly, but incorrectly, foetidus) stinking, from fetere have a bad smell, stink. Perhaps connected with fimus dung, or with fumus smoke …   Etymology dictionary

  • fetid — noisome, *malodorous, stinking, putrid, rank, rancid, fusty, musty Analogous words: foul, nasty (see DIRTY): *offensive, loathsome, repulsive, repugnant, revolting Antonyms: fragrant Contrasted words: *odorous, aromatic, redolent, balmy …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • fetid — meaning ‘stinking’, is normally pronounced fet id, occasionally feet id. The spelling fet , rather than foet , is now dominant …   Modern English usage

  • fetid — [adj] foul, rancid corrupt, fusty, grody*, gross*, icky*, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank, reeking, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, yecchy*,… …   New thesaurus

  • fetid — (also foetid) ► ADJECTIVE ▪ smelling very unpleasant. ORIGIN Latin fetidus, from fetere to stink …   English terms dictionary

  • fetid — [fet′id; ] also [ fēt′id] adj. [ME < L fetidus, foetidus < L foetere, to stink < IE * dhwoitos < base * dheu , to blow about > DULL] having a bad smell, as of decay; putrid fetidly adv. fetidness n …   English World dictionary

  • fetid — fet|id [ˈfetıd] adj formal [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: foetidus, from foetere to smell bad ] having a strong bad smell = ↑stinking ▪ the black fetid water of the lake ▪ the dog s fetid breath …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fetid — [[t]fe̱tɪd, fi͟ː [/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Fetid water or air has a very strong unpleasant smell. [FORMAL] ...the fetid river of waste... The smell hit him the fetid stench of vomit and human waste. Syn: stinking (in BRIT, also use foetid) …   English dictionary

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