rank-smelling
- adjective
- /ræŋkˈsmɛlɪŋ/
:
maloliente
- After the fish market closed, the rank-smelling air lingered in the street for hours.
Examples
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He refused to enter the rank-smelling basement until it was cleaned out completely.
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I helped her squeeze them into place, audibly doing more damage to their rank-smelling contents, and then my mother put her hands on the edge of the hatch and got ready to slam it.
Fiction book (1999) -
And here's to the baddest, most awful, rank-smelling, evil bad guy of them all.
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Now I was a walking superfluity, a flea on New York's shaggy, often rank-smelling coat.
Academic text (2008) -
The garbage left out for days had a rank-smelling odor that filled the entire alley.
Synonyms
118
1.0
Giving off a strong, unpleasant stink
60
1.0
Having a very bad smell
18
4.8
Having a strong, sharp smell or taste that can be unpleasant
18
6.9
Has a bad smell
8
7.9
A very strong, bad smell like rotten food or trash
7
4.1
A very strong stink that makes you want to move away
4
2.0
Having a very strong bad smell
1
9.9
A very strong, unpleasant smell that can make you ill
1
8.5
Having a strong smell that is often unpleasant
1
8.2
A very bad smell like rotten food
1
3.8
Having a bad smell that people do not like
1
4.4
That has a strong, unpleasant odor
Having a very strong unpleasant smell or taste
Having a very strong bad smell like smoke or rot
Giving off a very bad smell
Having a strong bad smell that makes you move away
Having a strong, unpleasant smell
Antonyms
How Smelly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rank-smelling begins with rank, an old word that came to mean 'strong and unpleasant', especially about smell. So rank-smelling literally means having a strong, offensive smell.