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| Concept: | Fetor. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; odor |
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-nouns
fetor; bad smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma; mustiness; rancidity; foulness (uncleanness)., stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary.
-verbs
have a bad smell; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat; smell strong, smell offensively.
-adjectives
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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| Antonyms: | fragrance |
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| Main Entry: | reek |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong odor |
| Synonyms: | effluvium, fetor, mephitis, smell, stench, stink |
| Notes: | redolent (an adjective) is customarily used of pleasant odors while reek (a verb) is used of odors that are sensorily unpleasing; redolent, 'emitting a strong odor or smell,' comes from Latin olere 'emit a smell' |
| Main Entry: | stench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul odor |
| Synonyms: | fetor, funk, malodor, mephitis, noisomeness, redolence, smell, stink* |
| Antonyms: | perfume, sweetness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad smell |
| Synonyms: | fetor, foul odor, foulness, malodor, noisomeness, offensive smell, stench |
| Antonyms: | perfume, sweetness |
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| Main Entry: | stench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bad, caprylic, corky, empyreumatic, feculent, fetid, foul, frowzy, fulsome, fusty, graveolent, halitotic, high, jumentous, maleolent, malodorous, mephitic, miasmatic, mucid, musty, nidorous, noisome, offensive, olid, olidous, putrescent, putrid, rafty, rammish, rancid, rank, reasty, saprostomous, smelling, smelly, stinking, stinky, strong, strong smelling, suffocating, tainted
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