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fetid
[fet-id, fee-tid]
adjective
having an offensive odor; stinking.
Synonyms: , ,
fetid
/ ˈfɛtɪd, ˈfiː- /
adjective
having a stale nauseating smell, as of decay
Other Word Forms
- fetidly adverb
- fetidness noun
- fetidity noun
- ˈڱپԱ noun
- ˈڱپ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fetid1
Example Sentences
But the plants that seem the most out of place — as if they belonged in some distant jungle, not the rural Midwest — are the more fetid flowers.
Pawpaws' maroon flowers and fetid odor suggest that flies and beetles are the plant's primary pollinators.
By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.
It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.
The park also built a larger sun canopy for the giraffe and dredged out garbage and fetid water from a pool that took up much of the enclosure.
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