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miasmal

miasmal adjective: having a noxious atmosphere.

Adjective

miasmal (comparative more miasmal, superlative most miasmal)

  1. Having a noxious atmosphere.
    • 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.2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196

Forms of miasmal

comparativemore miasmal
superlativemost miasmal

Origin of miasmal

From miasma + -al.

Questions about miasmal

What does miasmal mean?
Miasmal means having a noxious atmosphere.
What part of speech is miasmal?
Miasmal is an adjective.

Words near miasmal in the dictionary

  1. miaskite
  2. miaskites
  3. miaskitic
  4. miasm
  5. miasma
  6. miasmal
  7. miasmalike
  8. miasmas
  9. miasmata
  10. miasmatic
  11. miasmatical

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