Smelly - 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 food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.

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Fresh fruit

adverb

Newly; recently.

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Fresh-baked bread

adjective

Recently made, produced, or harvested

adjective

Having a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere.

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A small, frowsty office

adjective

(of a room) having an unpleasant smell because of having no fresh air

adjective

Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.

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The fusty odour of decay

adjective

Not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet

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This room smells slightly fusty - i think i'll open a window., rupert's father belongs to some fust…

adjective

Old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs

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Rupert's father belongs to some fusty old gentleman's club where they don't allow women in.

adjective

(of meat) having the strong flavour or smell of game, especially when it is high.

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A gamy stew of various meats

adjective

Having the strong smell or taste of game (= wild animals or birds that are killed to eat)

adjective

Of great vertical extent.

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The top of a high mountain

noun

A high point, level, or figure.

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Commodity prices were at a rare high

adverb

At or to a considerable or specified height.

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The sculpture stood about five feet high

adjective

Smelling very unpleasant.

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Leaking taps and malodorous drains

adjective

Having a stale, mouldy, or damp smell.

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A dark musty library

adjective

Smelling old and slightly wet

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A musty room

adjective

Having an unpleasant smell

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

adjective

Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.

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They were overcome by the noxious fumes

adjective

(esp. of a gas) poisonous or harmful

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Noxious gases

adverb

Away from the place in question; to or at a distance.

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The man ran off

preposition

Moving away and often down from.

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He rolled off the bed

adjective

Characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate.

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Even the greatest athletes have off days

noun

A strong, unpleasant smell.

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Corked wine has a powerful pong

verb

Smell strongly and unpleasantly.

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The place just pongs of dirty clothes

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

adjective

(of organic matter) decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell.

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A butcher who sold putrid meat

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

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.