fetid
/ˈfɛtɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.29 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
Example Sentences
- "I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks."
- "[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated."
- "Hiro fakes toward the whorehouse, then cuts directly toward an exposed section of wall. The fabric of the building is tough, but his katana slices a six-foot rent through it with a single gliding motion, and then he's outside, spat out of the hole on a jet of fetid air."
- ""I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin fēteō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin fētidusbor. English fetid Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).
Usage
Inflected Forms
more fetid (comparative)
most fetid (superlative)
foetid (alternative)
fœtid (alternative, archaic)
fetids (plural)