adj
Meaning 1
Foul-smelling, stinking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fetid
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɛtɪd/
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CMU ARPABET: F EH1 T AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Unpleasant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
offensively malodorous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a foul odor
- the kitchen smelled really funky
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin fēteō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin fētidusbor. English fetid Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَتِن (natin) — foul-smelling
- Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq) — foul-smelling
- Bulgarian: вонящ (vonjašt) — foul-smelling
- Bulgarian: зловонен (zlovonen) — foul-smelling
- Catalan: fètid — foul-smelling
- Czech: páchnoucí — foul-smelling
- Czech: smrdutý — foul-smelling
- Czech: zapáchající — foul-smelling
- Dutch: walmend — foul-smelling
- Dutch: stinkend — foul-smelling
- Finnish: löyhkäävä — foul-smelling
- Finnish: pahanhajuinen — foul-smelling
- French: fétide — foul-smelling
- German: stinkend — foul-smelling
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls) — foul-smelling
- Greek: δύσοσμος (dýsosmos) — foul-smelling
- Greek: δυσώδης (dysódis) — foul-smelling
- Hungarian: bűzös — foul-smelling
- Ido: fetida — foul-smelling
- Italian: fetido — foul-smelling
- Latin: fetidus — foul-smelling
- Malay: هاڽير — foul-smelling
- Malay: hanyir — foul-smelling
- Māori: hāruru — foul-smelling
- Māori: koeo — foul-smelling
- Polish: cuchnący — foul-smelling
- Portuguese: fétido — foul-smelling
- Romanian: fetid — foul-smelling
- Russian: воню́чий (vonjúčij) — foul-smelling
- Russian: зловонный (zlovonnyj) — foul-smelling
- Russian: смрадный (smradnyj) — foul-smelling
- Spanish: fétido — foul-smelling
- Swedish: stinkande — foul-smelling
- Tagalog: mabaho — foul-smelling
- Turkish: kokmuş — foul-smelling
- Turkish: kokuşmuş — foul-smelling
- Turkish: kokuşuk — foul-smelling
- Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır) — foul-smelling