fetid
(British also foetid)
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/icons/point.icon MALODOROUS, STINKING, FETID, NOISOME, PUTRID, RANK, FUSTY, MUSTY mean bad-smelling.
MALODOROUS may range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive.
e.g. malodorous fertilizers
STINKING and FETID suggest the foul or disgusting.
e.g. prisoners were held in stinking cells
e.g. the fetid odor of skunk cabbage
NOISOME adds a suggestion of being harmful or unwholesome as well as offensive.
e.g. a stagnant, noisome sewer
PUTRID implies particularly the sickening odor of decaying organic matter.
e.g. the putrid smell of rotting fish
RANK suggests a strong unpleasant smell.
e.g. rank cigar smoke
FUSTY and MUSTY suggest lack of fresh air and sunlight, FUSTY also implying prolonged uncleanliness, MUSTY stressing the effects of dampness, mildew, or age.
e.g. a fusty attic
e.g. the musty odor of a damp cellar
adjective
smelling extremely unpleasant:
悪臭のする, におう
e.g. the fetid water of the marsh.
DERIVATIVES
fetidly |ˈfedidlē| (British also foetidly) adverb
fetidness |ˈfedidnəs| (British also foetidness) noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Latin fetidus (often erroneously spelled foetidus), from fetere ‘to stink’. Compare with fetor.