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 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fetid
adj : offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: foetid, foul,
foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid,
stinking]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, putrid, smelly, stinking
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