Definition of fetid in English:

fetid

(British foetid)

adjective ˈfiːtɪdˈfɛtɪdˈfɛdɪd

Smelling extremely unpleasant.
the fetid water of the marsh
Example sentencesExamples
- Even in the fetid water of a city canal there are ducks and the occasional rainbow.
- Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness.
- None of the plants can be seen from the interstate, but their presence is betrayed by the fetid smell of factory effluents.
- The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds.
- What yesterday had been a hog lot, was now a small, fetid swamp, water bubbling up in the middle.
- Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
- We are all facing death, these movies say, and when we smell its fetid breath we have only two choices.
- He warned that the fetid water could spread disease and that natural gas was leaking all over town.
- By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke.
- The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
- They are still no showers for people who have walked for hours through fetid waters.
- She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans.
- In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters.
- The water had become fetid, he explained, and he'd lost two crocodiles in as many years.
- It smelled of fetid water and decaying food; the French Quarter was quiet for the first time in hundreds of years.
- These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors.
- And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat.
- The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus.
- I stumbled to the swamp and drank the fetid water, coughing half of it back up again.
- The fetid sour smell of garlic, garum and stale wine on his breath overwhelmed Yohanna and she gasped for air.
Synonyms
stinking, smelly, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, stinking to high heaven, reeking, pungent, acrid, high, rank, foul, unpleasant, nasty, noxious
West Indian fresh
informal stinky, reeky
British informal niffing, niffy, pongy, whiffy, humming
North American informal funky
literary noisome, mephitic
rare miasmic, miasmal, olid

Derivatives

fetidly

adverbˈfiːtɪdliˈfɛtɪdliˈfɛdɪdli

Putrid smoke laced the sky, blending with the dark, low-hanging storm clouds that did not promise rain, and the eerily angelic white of mist rising from the fetidly warm earth.
Example sentencesExamples
- But without them I was forced to live in a world of initially swirling, but then foetidly clumping leaves.

fetidness

nounˈfiːtɪdnəsˈfɛtɪdˈfɛdɪdnəs

The scent is quite strong and usually musky with undertones of foetidness.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was an air of fetidness, an oddly familiar fetidness.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin fetidus (often erroneously spelled foetidus), from fetere 'to stink'. Compare with fetor.

Rhymes

indebted, minareted, rosetted

Definition of fetid in US English:

fetid

(British foetid)

adjectiveˈfedidˈfɛdɪd

Smelling extremely unpleasant.
the fetid water of the marsh
Example sentencesExamples
- By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke.
- These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors.
- We are all facing death, these movies say, and when we smell its fetid breath we have only two choices.
- The water had become fetid, he explained, and he'd lost two crocodiles in as many years.
- They are still no showers for people who have walked for hours through fetid waters.
- The fetid sour smell of garlic, garum and stale wine on his breath overwhelmed Yohanna and she gasped for air.
- It smelled of fetid water and decaying food; the French Quarter was quiet for the first time in hundreds of years.
- Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness.
- Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
- She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans.
- The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus.
- What yesterday had been a hog lot, was now a small, fetid swamp, water bubbling up in the middle.
- Even in the fetid water of a city canal there are ducks and the occasional rainbow.
- The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
- None of the plants can be seen from the interstate, but their presence is betrayed by the fetid smell of factory effluents.
- He warned that the fetid water could spread disease and that natural gas was leaking all over town.
- In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters.
- The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds.
- I stumbled to the swamp and drank the fetid water, coughing half of it back up again.
- And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat.
Synonyms
stinking, smelly, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, stinking to high heaven, reeking, pungent, acrid, high, rank, foul, unpleasant, nasty, noxious

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin fetidus (often erroneously spelled foetidus), from fetere ‘to stink’. Compare with fetor.

单词	fetid
释义	Definition of fetid in English: fetid (British foetid) adjective ˈfiːtɪdˈfɛtɪdˈfɛdɪd Smelling extremely unpleasant. the fetid water of the marsh Example sentencesExamples Even in the fetid water of a city canal there are ducks and the occasional rainbow. Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness. None of the plants can be seen from the interstate, but their presence is betrayed by the fetid smell of factory effluents. The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds. What yesterday had been a hog lot, was now a small, fetid swamp, water bubbling up in the middle. Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered. We are all facing death, these movies say, and when we smell its fetid breath we have only two choices. He warned that the fetid water could spread disease and that natural gas was leaking all over town. By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke. The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag. They are still no showers for people who have walked for hours through fetid waters. She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans. In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters. The water had become fetid, he explained, and he'd lost two crocodiles in as many years. It smelled of fetid water and decaying food; the French Quarter was quiet for the first time in hundreds of years. These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors. And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat. The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus. I stumbled to the swamp and drank the fetid water, coughing half of it back up again. The fetid sour smell of garlic, garum and stale wine on his breath overwhelmed Yohanna and she gasped for air. Synonyms stinking, smelly, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, stinking to high heaven, reeking, pungent, acrid, high, rank, foul, unpleasant, nasty, noxious West Indian fresh informal stinky, reeky British informal niffing, niffy, pongy, whiffy, humming North American informal funky literary noisome, mephitic rare miasmic, miasmal, olid Derivatives fetidly adverbˈfiːtɪdliˈfɛtɪdliˈfɛdɪdli Putrid smoke laced the sky, blending with the dark, low-hanging storm clouds that did not promise rain, and the eerily angelic white of mist rising from the fetidly warm earth. Example sentencesExamples But without them I was forced to live in a world of initially swirling, but then foetidly clumping leaves. fetidness nounˈfiːtɪdnəsˈfɛtɪdˈfɛdɪdnəs The scent is quite strong and usually musky with undertones of foetidness. Example sentencesExamples There was an air of fetidness, an oddly familiar fetidness. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin fetidus (often erroneously spelled foetidus), from fetere 'to stink'. Compare with fetor. Rhymes indebted, minareted, rosetted Definition of fetid in US English: fetid (British foetid) adjectiveˈfedidˈfɛdɪd Smelling extremely unpleasant. the fetid water of the marsh Example sentencesExamples By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke. These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors. We are all facing death, these movies say, and when we smell its fetid breath we have only two choices. The water had become fetid, he explained, and he'd lost two crocodiles in as many years. They are still no showers for people who have walked for hours through fetid waters. The fetid sour smell of garlic, garum and stale wine on his breath overwhelmed Yohanna and she gasped for air. It smelled of fetid water and decaying food; the French Quarter was quiet for the first time in hundreds of years. Down the embankment, paddle through four inches of fetid water and soon we were engulfed by darkness. Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered. She lived and worked night after night in stinking tenements and foetid shelters packed with unwashed humans. The spectre of disease also haunted recovery efforts with doctors fearing the foetid waters and squalid conditions in shelters could breed cholera or typhoid, or mosquitoes carrying malaria or West Nile virus. What yesterday had been a hog lot, was now a small, fetid swamp, water bubbling up in the middle. Even in the fetid water of a city canal there are ducks and the occasional rainbow. The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag. None of the plants can be seen from the interstate, but their presence is betrayed by the fetid smell of factory effluents. He warned that the fetid water could spread disease and that natural gas was leaking all over town. In the wards, children are crowded two and three in a bed in airless rooms, foetid with the smell of kerosene heaters. The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds. I stumbled to the swamp and drank the fetid water, coughing half of it back up again. And pot smoke lends a piquant tinge to the smell of fetid sweat. Synonyms stinking, smelly, foul-smelling, evil-smelling, malodorous, stinking to high heaven, reeking, pungent, acrid, high, rank, foul, unpleasant, nasty, noxious Origin Late Middle English: from Latin fetidus (often erroneously spelled foetidus), from fetere ‘to stink’. Compare with fetor.
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