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feculent

feculent

1 9.9
Containing dirty waste that makes something smell bad
  • adjective
  • /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/
translation icon : fétido
  • After the storm, the feculent debris clogged the streets and created a health hazard.

Examples

  • I have no sympathy for any of you feculent maggots and no more patience to pretend otherwise.

    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

  • The feculent water in the pond was filled with harmful bacteria.

  • Feculent fool!

    Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)

  • Then how much more so is our immutable and feculent world, the meager image of predominance.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • You're a fine upstanding human being, not some feculent jackass with a keyboard, an internet connection, and a blistering sense of personal inferiority that is indistinguishable from common sociopathy.

    Blog text (15)

  • He avoided walking near the feculent alley, as the smell was unbearable.

Synonyms

fetid
vsfeculent
8 7.9

A very strong, bad smell like rotten food or trash

is contaminated with waste rather than only having a bad smell

Antonyms

clean
∞ 1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

pure
390 1.0

Has nothing mixed with it

How Foul

putrid
12 7.0
feculent
1 9.9
filthy
183 1.5
dirty
525 1.0
soiled
1 2.5
clean
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

feculent positive

Morphology

feculent = fecal (semi-transparent) = fecal + ulent

Formed by adding the rare suffix '-ulent' (meaning 'full of') to 'fecal'; the overall meaning is derivable but the suffix and rare usage make it only partially transparent to learners.

Etymology

The word feculent comes from the Latin root feces, which means 'waste' or 'dregs'. So, something described as feculent is dirty or filled with foul waste.