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malodorous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective malodorous has 1 sense
- malodorous(a = adj.all) ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling - having an unpleasant smell; Array Antonym: fragrant
Derived form noun malodorousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
malodorous, a.
Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
malodorous
abhorrent, abominable, aromatic, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crappy, crude, decayed, decomposed, despicable, detestable, disgusting, effluvious, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, forbidding, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gloppy, graveolent, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, ill-treat, ill-use, improper, indecent, indelicate, loathsome, maggoty, maltreat, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, mistreat, misuse, moldy, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorant, odored, odoriferous, odorous, off, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrage, pestilential, poisonous, polluted, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, redolent, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rough, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smellsome, smelly, spoiled, sposhy, stale, stenchful, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, unbecoming, undecorous, ungodly, unseemly, untoward, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy
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