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rancid

Syllables: ran·cid/ˈɹænsɪd/

rancid adjective: rank in taste or smell.

Adjective

rancid (comparative more rancid, superlative most rancid)

  1. Rank in taste or smell.
    • The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
  2. Offensive. Unpleasant.
    • Her remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.

rancid meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

rancid in Tamil

கெடுப்போன, ஊசிப்பேன

rancid in Urdu

بدبودار, گندا, سڑا ہوا, جارحانہ

rancid in Bengali

পচা, দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত

rancid in Malayalam

ദുർഗ്ഗന്ധ, തീക്ഷ്ണരസ, പുളിപ്പുള്ള, വളിച്ച
More languagesFewer languages
rancid in Kannada
ಕಮಟು, ಗಮಟು
rancid in Tagalog
maanta
rancid in Arabic
زَنِخ zaniḵ
rancid in Malay
basi

Examples of rancid in a sentence

  • Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death.
  • I see no need to expound further upon the putridity of this rancid weed.
  • Tagetes has a characteristic herbaceous, somewhat rancid odor with fruital, bitter undertones.

All 11 example sentences with rancid

Forms of rancid

comparativemore rancid
superlativemost rancid

Origin of rancid

Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).

Words formed from rancid

Questions about rancid

What does rancid mean?
Rancid means rank in taste or smell.
What is rancid in Tamil?
Rancid in Tamil is கெடுப்போன, ஊசிப்பேன. See Rancid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rancid?
Rancid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce rancid?
Rancid is pronounced /ˈɹænsɪd/.

Words near rancid in the dictionary

  1. ranchu
  2. ranchwoman
  3. ranchwomen
  4. ranchy
  5. ranchū
  6. rancid
  7. rancidest
  8. rancidification
  9. rancidifications
  10. rancidified
  11. rancidifies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rancid (page history and authors); rancid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rancid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rancid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rancid (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rancid (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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