English > malodorous: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Having an unpleasant smell. |
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Synonyms | malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky |
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Narrower | bilgy | Smelling like bilge water |
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fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented | offensively malodorous |
fusty, musty, frowsty | Stale and unclean smelling |
gamey, gamy, high | (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted |
miasmic, mephitic | Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution |
niffy | (British informal) malodorous |
odoriferous, odorous | emitting an odor |
putrid-smelling | Having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter |
rank-smelling | Having an offensive rancid odor |
reeking | giving off a strong unpleasant smell |
sour, rancid | Smelling of fermentation or staleness |
Opposite | fragrant | pleasant-smelling |
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Spanish | fétido, hediondo, maloliente |
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Nouns | malodorousness | the attribute of having a strong offensive smell |
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