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miasmatical

miasmatical is the alternative form of miasmatic.

Meaning of miasmatic

Adjective

miasmatic (comparative more miasmatic, superlative most miasmatic)

  1. Reeking, oppressing, having the nature of miasma.
    • In the Renaissance, when disease was thought to be miasmatic, or transmitted by bad air and smells, strongly perfumed gloves were thought to protect the wearer from epidemics.2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 20

Forms of miasmatical

comparativemore miasmatical
superlativemost miasmatical

Questions about miasmatical

What is miasmatical the alternative form of?
Miasmatical is the alternative form of miasmatic.

Words near miasmatical in the dictionary

  1. miasmal
  2. miasmalike
  3. miasmas
  4. miasmata
  5. miasmatic
  6. miasmatical
  7. miasmatically
  8. miasmatism
  9. miasmatist
  10. miasmatists
  11. miasmatology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miasmatical (page history and authors); miasmatic (page history and authors). 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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