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fetid

Or ڴDZ·

[fet-id, fee-tid]

adjective

  1. having an offensive odor; stinking.

    Synonyms: , ,


fetid

/ ˈfɛtɪd, ˈfiː- /

adjective

  1. having a stale nauseating smell, as of decay

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Other Word Forms

  • fetidly adverb
  • fetidness noun
  • fetidity noun
  • ˈڱپԱ noun
  • ˈڱپ adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fetid1

1590–1600; < Latin ŧپܲ, equivalent to ŧ- (stem of ŧŧ to stink) + -idus -id 4
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fetid1

C16: from Latin ŧپܲ , from ŧŧ to stink; related to ūܲ smoke
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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.

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Pawpaws' maroon flowers and fetid odor suggest that flies and beetles are the plant's primary pollinators.

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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.

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It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.

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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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