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fetid

/ˈfɛtɪd/

fetid adjective: foul-smelling, stinking.

Adjective

fetid (comparative more fetid, superlative most fetid)

  1. Foul-smelling, stinking.
    • 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.1878, Henry James, “Honoré de Balzac”, in French Poets and Novelists, London: Macmillan, II, p. 122
  2. (dated, slang) Unpleasant.
    • "I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Noun

fetid (plural fetids)

  1. (rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.

fetid meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Tagalog

fetid in Urdu

بدبودار

fetid in Bengali

দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত, পচা, নোংরা গন্ধযুক্ত

fetid in Malayalam

smelly, stinking, foul-smelling
ദുർഗ്ഗന്ധമുള്ള, പൂതിഗന്ധിയായ, നാറ്റമുള്ള, ദുർഗ്ഗന്ധി, കുണപ, ദുർഗന്ധപൂർണ്ണമായ

fetid in Tagalog

foul-smelling
mabaho
More languagesFewer languages
fetid in Arabic
نَتِن natin
fetid in Malay
hanyir

Examples of fetid in a sentence

  • The same type as when it has rained, remained humid, a fetid stale of ozone over everything.
  • But that really is a piece of marketing underspeak for this fantastic fetid backplot.
  • But the shift is not only tonal or textural, from sweet green growth to fetid brown decay.

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Forms of fetid

Adjective
comparativemore fetid
superlativemost fetid
alternative formfoetid
alternative form (archaic)fœtid
Noun
pluralfetids

Origin of fetid

Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).

Words formed from fetid

Words that rhyme with fetid

Questions about fetid

What does fetid mean?
Fetid means foul-smelling, stinking.
What is fetid in Urdu?
Fetid in Urdu is بدبودار. See Fetid meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is fetid?
Fetid can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce fetid?
Fetid is pronounced /ˈfɛtɪd/.

Words near fetid in the dictionary

  1. fetichizing
  2. feticidal
  3. feticide
  4. feticides
  5. feticism
  6. fetid
  7. fetid sweat
  8. fetidin
  9. fetidins
  10. fetidities
  11. fetidity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fetid (page history and authors); fetid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Fetid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fetid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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