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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fetid \Fet"id\ (? or ?; 277), adjective [L. fetidus, foetidus, fr. fetere, foetere, to have an ill smell, to stink: cf. F. f['e]tide.] Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fetid
adjective: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {foetid}, {foul}, {foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {putrid}, {stinking}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "fetid": abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, cloying, contemptible, crappy, crude, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, feculent, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gloppy, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, terrible, too bad, unclean, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy, yucky
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