What does “fetid” mean? (+ a short quiz!)

January 11, 2011 in Vocab

We can only hope that Oscar enjoys the fetid smells of the town dump

What does “fetid” mean?

Part of Speech: adj

Pronunciations: IPA: /ˈfɛ.tɪd/ Glossary-style: [FEH-tid]

Definition: having an extremely bad smell.

Example: The fetid smells of the rotting food were so strong that no one could enter the kitchen.

fetid most nearly means

(A) humorous

(B) offensive

(D) stinky

(E) rueful

Answer:

shanmugam krishnan said on February 25, 2011

fetid(adj):It means having an disgusting or loathsome or nasty or Angriff smell.
It came from a Latin word “fetidus”, which means to stink.
It is basically referred to as foul-smelling, funky, foetid, smelly, stinking, foul, noisome, putrid, malodorous, malodourous,ill-scented, niffy.

very rare case if it is used as an adj.

example:the kitchen smelled really funky

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Terry said on May 4, 2011

Thanks shanmugam for the clear explaining. Which word is usual in USA, funky or fetid?

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- Erin Billy said on May 16, 2011
  
  I think the words funky and fetid have different connotations in the US, the former being used more facetiously and the latter being more formal or dated. I think it’d be more common to call something smelly.
  
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Paper cup machine coimbatore said on July 15, 2011

hi terry, the word funky is usual in US..

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