malodorous
/malˈəʊd(ə)rəs
/adjective
Smelling very unpleasant: leaking taps and malodorous drains...
- The eating of garlic is well known for causing a particularly pungent malodorous breath that can have unpleasant social consequences.
- He wondered if perhaps something was in the rubbish bin in the kitchen that was malodorous but it didn't quite have that kind of smell.
- Levitt determined definitively the most malodorous component of the human flatus: hydrogen sulfide.
Synonyms
foul-smelling, evil-smelling, fetid, smelly, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, reeky, pungent, acrid, rank, high, putrid, noxious;
West Indian fresh
informal stinky
British informal niffing, niffy, pongy, whiffy, humming
North American informal funky
literary noisome, mephitic
rare miasmic, miasmal, olid
Rhymes
- platform scale
- platform shoe
- platform sole
- platform-soled
- platform stage
- platform tennis
- platform ticket
- platform truck
- platform wagon
- platform woman
- platformy
- platform yard
- Plath, Sylvia
- platic
- platilla
- platina
- platinate
- platinated
- plating
- plating bath
- plating certificate
- plating examination
- platinic
- platinic chloride
- platinichloric