rancid
/ˈransɪd
/adjective
1(Of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale: rancid meat without preservatives, fat goes rancid...
- If you don't know what it's supposed to smell like, it might smell a little like rancid butter.
- Butyric acid is responsible not only for the smell of rancid butter, but also contributes to the odor of sweat.
- When I returned I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep because of this rancid smell consuming the house.
Synonyms
sour, stale, turned, rank, putrid, foul, rotten, bad, off, old, tainted;
gamy, high, fetid, stinking, malodorous, foul-smelling, evil-smelling;
unpleasant, noxious, revolting, nasty, sickening, offensive
literary noisome, mephitic
rare miasmic, miasmal, olid
1.1Highly unpleasant; repugnant: his columns are just rationales for every kind of rancid prejudice
Derivatives
rancidity
- Antioxidants added to the fat at the time of storage prevent the occurrence of rancidity.
- Store any leftovers in a cool, dry place because the high oil content of the nuts can lead to rancidity.
- A practical strategy to check for rancidity is to simply smell the fish oil.
rancidly
rancidness
- Imagine a pan of bacon grease left sitting out for a week or two, the house closed up, a mustiness already risen from the basement where clothes have mildewed, mixing with the greasy rancidness.
- The aroma compounds were correlated to potato flavour and rancidness.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin rancidus 'stinking'.
Latin rancidus which means ‘stinking’ is the source of rancid in English. The related rancor ‘rankness’ gives us rancour (Middle English).
Rhymes
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