fetid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Foul-smelling, stinking.

   I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.

2. 2
   adj

   Unpleasant.

   1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted.

3. 3
   adj

   offensively malodorous

4. 4
   noun

   The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.

Etymology tree Latin fēteō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin fētidusbor. English fetid Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).

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