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mephitic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mephitic has 1 sense
- mephitic(s = adj.all) miasmic - of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution; Array Derived forms noun mephitis2, noun mephitis1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mephitic, a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf. F. méphitique.].
- Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. [1913 Webster]
- Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
mephitic
Insalubrity
N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.
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