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urinous

urinous

9.9
Having a smell like urine
  • adjective
  • /ˈjʊrɪnəs/
translation icon : urinario
  • The overflowing gutter gave off a urinous scent that filled the street.

Examples

  • After the rain, the urinous odor of the ground rose into the air.

  • Where a cruet filled with Cellini's urinous mixture had rested five hours earlier, a crystal decanter, filled with the Abbe's finest stream water, now glistened.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The bathroom had a strong, urinous smell that made it hard to stay inside.

Synonyms

urinary
vsurinous
  • Specialized
21 4.3

Relating to urine and the body parts that make and remove it

focuses on the smell or qualities of urine rather than bodily systems
pissy
vsurinous
  • NSFW
1 9.9

Smelling strongly of urine

is marked by urine smell or qualities without implying physical contamination

How Smelly

putrid
12 7.0
fetid
8 7.9
smelly
118 1.0
urinous
9.9
faint
148 2.7
odorless
  • US
11 3.0

Surface Forms

urinous positive

Morphology

urinous = urine (transparent) = urin + ous

Formed from 'urine' + the adjective-forming suffix '-ous' (regular e-dropping), so the meaning 'having the qualities or smell of urine' is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Urinous comes from the Latin word urina meaning 'urine' and the English ending -ous meaning 'full of'. So urinous means 'full of the smell or quality of urine', which is why we use it for a place or thing that smells like urine.