Fetid Definition

fetid; also fētid
adjective
Having an offensive odor.
American Heritage
Having a bad smell, as of decay; putrid.
Webster's New World
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noun

(rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.

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Other Word Forms of Fetid

Noun

Singular:
fetid
Plural:
fetids

Origin of Fetid

  • From the Latin adjective, fetidus (“having offensive odour”) (often incorrectly foetidus, giving rise to the variant spelling), originally feteo (“to stink”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin fētidus from fētēre to stink

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fetid Sentence Examples

  • Sluggish brackish streams creep along between banks of fetid black mud.

  • We wanted the audience to feel the fetid claustrophobia of the bunker.

  • But it undoubtedly prolongs life, lessens suffering, and by checking the growth of bacteria upon the cancer reduces the fetid odour and the symptoms of septic intoxication.

  • This is not a suit for splashing about barbarically in the fetid seas of Venice.

  • The mine tunnel narrowed and the pair was forced to hunch down under the low ceiling that closed in the fetid air around them like a soaked and musty blanket.

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