odiferous
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8.5
- adjective
- /əˈdɪfərəs/
:
odioso
- Their odiferous scent travels from the garden through the barred windows of Block II, where prisoners who have attempted escape are crammed, fifteen to an unventilated space, to die of suffocation.
- less odiferous
Examples
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It didn't smell wonderful, but it was decidedly less odiferous than it had been twenty minutes ago.
Fiction book (1995) -
Otherwise, be ready to have an incredibly odiferous washroom.
Blog text (30) -
Do you promise to love Roland... when he is odiferous... indifferent, belligerent?
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It's odiously, odiferous, olfactory emanations.
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The seat cushion was covered by a mound of dark, odiferous pellets.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Unpleasantly odiferous?" said Maxwell snippily.
Fiction book (2001) -
Six or eight hours into a transoceanic flight, most aircraft lavatories have become as odiferous as the inside of the monkey cage at the zoo.
Blog text (25) -
Engineers painstakingly select materials to eliminate that threat, even studying how materials smell at temperature extremes and rejecting odiferous offenders.
Blog text (2) -
The other was the odiferous old woodsman Rancid Crabtree, who had never worked a day in his life and spent all of his time fishing and hunting.
Fiction book (2001) -
The odiferous smell of trash lingered in the air, making it hard to breathe.
Synonyms
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1.0
Giving off a strong, unpleasant stink
60
1.0
Having a very bad smell
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3.0
Having a very bad smell or taste
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6.8
Not pleasant to taste or smell
18
4.8
Having a strong, sharp smell or taste that can be unpleasant
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6.9
Has a bad smell
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7.9
A very strong, bad smell like rotten food or trash
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6.7
A strong, unpleasant sharp taste or smell
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5.3
Very bad or unpleasant
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4.1
A very strong stink that makes you want to move away
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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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9.3
Giving off a strong, often unpleasant smell you notice quickly
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5.5
Having a smell you can notice
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4.8
Having an unpleasant taste or smell
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6.5
Something that smells or tastes bad
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8.2
A very bad smell like rotten food
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3.8
Having a bad smell that people do not like
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4.4
That has a strong, unpleasant odor
Having a very strong bad smell like smoke or rot
Having a strong bad smell that makes you move away
Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food
Having a very strong unpleasant smell or taste
Having a strong, unpleasant smell
Giving off a very bad smell
Antonyms
How Smelly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Odiferous comes from Latin parts: odor meaning 'smell' and -ferous meaning 'carrying' or 'full of', where the 'fer' is like in transfer ('to carry'). So odiferous literally means 'carrying a smell', which is why we use it for things that give off a strong or noticeable smell.