miasmal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-as-mal
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Meaning

adj

Having a noxious atmosphere.

Example Sentences

"A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had."

Etymology

Etymology tree English miasma Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English miasmal From miasma + -al.

Inflected Forms

more miasmal (comparative) most miasmal (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

miasma

Synonyms

miasmic vaporous vapourous

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What does miasmal mean?

Having a noxious atmosphere.

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