rancid
rancid
Definition
ran·cid (ran′sid)
adjective
- having the bad smell or taste of stale fats or oils; spoiled
- repugnant
Etymology: L rancidus < rancere, to be rank
ran·cid′·ity (-sid′ə tē) noun or ran′·cid·ness
ran′·cidly adverb
rancid
Synonyms
rancid
modif.
Decaying
rotten, spoiled, tainted, turned, stale, sour, bad, contaminated, polluted, unhealthy, noxious, moldy, carious, putrescent, impure, decomposing, putrefied, musty, rank, fetid, foul. Having a rank taste and odor
foul, fetid, rank, stinking, reeking, putrid, offensive, smelly, sour, disagreeable, malodorous, strong-smelling, saprogenous, cloacal, feculent, mephitic, sharp, pungent, nasty, disgusting, evil-smelling, gamy, high, strong, putrefactive, turned, musty, reeky, noisome; see also rank 2.
rancid
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- particularly: I've just spent the best part of two hours getting rid of the best part of 200 pieces of particularly rancid spam.
- fairly: Although to be honest it's a fairly rancid plot, it is at least familiar and your mood is calm.
Modifies a noun
- smell: The rancid, sour smell of dragon wafted up from the large pen below.
- butter: For instance, there is a humorous passage about cooking with butter that will have you smiling about rancid butter in every dish.
- fat: Buy a gas mask and smear it with rancid animal fat.
- taste: Just for the refreshment of it, I mean, and to take the rancid taste out of our mouth.
- food: They are designed to eat freshly killed animals and seem to have lost the ability to cope with rancid food.
- meat: The stigma that our forebears had to make do with rancid meat is nonsense.
Used with adjective complement
- turn: We can also take in extra doses by eating food in which the fat has turned rancid, by smoking or drinking alcohol.
- go: They keep it from going rancid, thus allowing a storage life of up to five years.
- become: Storage Due to their high oil content, the seeds will quickly become rancid.
- smell: Worse food, worse drink, darker walls, and discontent in the air smelling more rancid than the beer.
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