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miasmic /mɪˈazmɪk / /mʌɪˈazmɪk /adjective literary1Producing an unpleasant smell; noxious: that peculiarly miasmic atmosphere generated by small boys and adolescent teenagers...- It was a nightmare illness; everything was fetid, miasmic, gangrenous.
- If you do not shake thoroughly, the pigment and the medium come out of the bottle in one miasmic clump.
- The protagonist describes the miasmic ulcers that afflict everyone.
1.1Characterized by a mysterious and unpleasant atmosphere; oppressive: we know the territory, its long and miasmic history...- The situation is exacerbated by the miasmic chaos of Spanish planning regulations.
- His miasmic reputation has always overshadowed the guy's ability to write a really strong, catchy piece.
- It did nothing to alleviate the depression, desperation and miasmic ennui that was engulfing me.
Derivatives miasmically adverb ...- Sometimes the sweat miasmically mingles in with the just-as-warm tears from my rubbed-raw eyes.
- I mean that the posts themselves ought to be couched in a way that is not so miasmically depressing.
- Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in, the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets.
Rhymes chasmic, cytoplasmic, ectoplasmic, orgasmic, phantasmic |