miasmic
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9.9
- adjective
- /maɪˈæzmɪk/
- After the storm, the miasmic air filled the village, causing many to feel unwell.
Examples
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The room was filled with a miasmic stench that drove everyone to open the windows.
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A miasmic fear of "terrorists" comes out of the corporate media and touches millions.
Blog text (10) -
The light breaks through the darkness over me, and looking up, I see in the black and brilliant orange two of them floating amid the miasmic colors.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the end of a miasmic New York summer, I went to see the hillbilly actor and charter member of Alcoholics Anonymous in Bellevue Hospital.
Fiction book (1994) -
But there is a miasmic grey region in between, of marginally provable with difficulty merging into outright unprovable.
Blog text (30) -
It's a sort of miasmic depression that settles over me when aspects of my life are not going well for any reason, and which I compare to the desolation of a racetrack late on getaway day, the last one of any meet.
Fiction book (1990) -
Budd, along with Dr. John Snow, publicly advocated a theory of germ contagion versus the then more commonly held miasmic theory of effluent odors.
Academic text (1992) -
The miasmic odor of the old dump made it impossible to breathe nearby.
Synonyms
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5.3
Very bad or unpleasant
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1.0
Giving off a strong, unpleasant stink
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1.0
Having a very bad smell
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2.1
Has soft green or black growth and often smells bad
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3.9
A stale, slightly damp smell like old things kept without fresh air
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7.8
Harmful to health or strongly unpleasant to the senses
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6.9
Has a bad smell
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2.7
A room with little fresh air that feels uncomfortable to breathe in
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7.0
Rotting and smelling very bad
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6.7
Having a very strong unpleasant smell or taste
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5.0
Having a very strong bad smell like smoke or rot
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4.1
A very strong stink that makes you want to move away
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7.9
A very strong, bad smell like rotten food or trash
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8.2
Having a very bad smell that people dislike
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9.9
A very strong, unpleasant smell that can make you ill
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3.8
Having a bad smell that people do not like
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7.1
Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food
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8.2
A very bad smell like rotten food
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8.5
Having a strong smell that is often unpleasant
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4.4
That has a strong, unpleasant odor
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9.9
A strong, harmful smell from rot or pollution that makes it hard to breathe
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9.9
Having a strong bad smell that makes you move away
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9.5
Having a stale, stuffy smell as if it has not been aired
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9.9
Full of a thick, unhealthy mist that smells bad
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9.9
Smelling bad and making the air feel heavy and unhealthy
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9.9
Having a slimy or musty smell like old mold
Having a strong, unpleasant smell
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Morphology
Etymology
Miasmic comes from the Greek word miasma, which meant 'pollution' or 'stain' and was used for the 'bad air' people once thought caused disease. So miasmic describes air or a place that is foul-smelling and feels unhealthy to breathe.