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cacodorous

cacodorous adjective: having a bad smell.

Adjective

cacodorous (comparative more cacodorous, superlative most cacodorous)

  1. Having a bad smell.
    • There is a grey old ruined castle at Guildford, buried in a cacodorous part of the town.1866, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar, volume 18, page 44
    Synonyms:
    malodorous

Synonyms of cacodorous

Forms of cacodorous

comparativemore cacodorous
superlativemost cacodorous

Questions about cacodorous

What does cacodorous mean?
Cacodorous means having a bad smell.
What part of speech is cacodorous?
Cacodorous is an adjective.

Words near cacodorous in the dictionary

  1. cacodemonia
  2. cacodemoniac
  3. cacodemonic
  4. cacodemonomania
  5. cacodemons
  6. cacodorous
  7. cacodoxical
  8. cacodoxies
  9. cacodoxy
  10. cacodyl
  11. cacodyl oxide

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