Odorous - English meaning

adjective

Unpleasantly bitter or pungent.

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Acrid smoke

adjective

Strong, bitter, and unpleasant

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The electrical fire sent thick clouds of acrid smoke through the office.

adjective

An acrid smell or taste is strong and bitter and causes a burning feeling in the throat

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Clouds of acrid smoke issued from the building.

adjective

Smelling extremely unpleasant.

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The fetid water of the marsh

adjective

Smelling extremely bad and stale

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Fetid air/breath

adjective

(of music) having or using a strong dance rhythm, in particular that of funk.

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Some excellent funky beats

adjective

Frightened, panicky, or cowardly.

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He did not give up to you like a funky traveller to a highwayman

adjective

Used to describe a style of music, usually for dancing to, with a strong rhythm based on jazz and a tune that repeats

Usage examples:

Have you heard their new record? it's really funky.

adjective

Smelling very unpleasant.

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Leaking taps and malodorous drains

adjective

(especially of a gas or vapour) foul-smelling; noxious.

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The cloud of mephitic vapours lingered above our heads

adjective

Smelling very bad

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The creatures are believed to live in the mephitic swamps of the region., the mephitic fumes from t…

adjective

Producing an unpleasant smell; noxious.

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That peculiarly miasmic atmosphere generated by small boys and adolescent teenagers

adjective

Having an unpleasant smell

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It smells a bit niffy down there., the room was starting to get niffy.

adjective

Having an extremely offensive smell.

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Noisome vapours from the smouldering waste

adjective

Very unpleasant and offensive

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A noisome stench

adjective

Having or giving off a smell, especially an unpleasant one.

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An odoriferous pile of fish

adjective

Having a smell, especially an unpleasant one

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Ammonia is a highly odoriferous and exceptionally volatile substance., lead is easily purified away…

adjective

Smelling extremely unpleasant.

adjective

Having a sharply strong taste or smell.

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The pungent smell of frying onions

adjective

(of a smell or taste) very strong, sometimes in an unpleasant way

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Pungent odors

noun

A position in the hierarchy of the armed forces.

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An army officer of high rank

verb

Give (someone or something) a rank or place within a grading system.

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Students ranked the samples in order of preference

adjective

(of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.

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Clumps of rank grass

verb

Smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink.

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The yard reeked of wet straw and horse manure

noun

A foul smell.

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The reek of cattle dung

noun

Smoke.

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He recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek

adjective

Having a strong or unpleasant smell.

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Smelly feet

adjective

Having an unpleasant smell

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Smelly feet, the basement is damp and smelly.

adjective

Foul-smelling.

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He was locked in a stinking cell

adverb

Extremely.

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She is obviously stinking rich

verb

Have a strong unpleasant smell.

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The place stank like a sewer

adjective

Having a strong or unpleasant smell.

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Stinky cheese

adjective

Having or producing an unpleasant smell

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Stinky cheese, the job is dirty, a little stinky, and far from glamorous.

adjective

Having an unpleasant smell.

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Whiffy socks

adjective

Smelling unpleasant

Usage examples:

He hadn't showered for a couple of days and was starting to get whiffy.