Antonyms for fetid

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fet-id, fee-tid

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛt ɪd, ˈfi tɪd

Definition of fetid

Origin : early 15c., from Latin fetidus (commonly, but incorrectly, foetidus) "stinking," from fetere "have a bad smell, stink." Perhaps connected with fimus "dung," or with fumus "smoke."

adj foul, rancid

Example sentences :

A blast of fetid, stinking air struck his face, and he choked.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various

It has a discharge from the eyes, and a fetid, sanious discharge from the nose.
Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings

What of the babes who cry in fetid cellars for the light and are denied it?
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various

For all the vaunted mechanisms of our time, the air here was heavy and fetid.
Extract from : « Wandl the Invader » by Raymond King Cummings

The fetid stench of an English prison ship could not abate his love of liberty and country.
Extract from : « Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, Commander of the Fifteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Army, during the War of the Revolution » by Charles Hersey

He was as devoid of it as the fetid slime one treads underfoot in nightmares.
Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London

When he came to his senses again he found himself in the fetid hold of a ship.
Extract from : « Wood Rangers » by Mayne Reid

A smell of decay—of death—and yet somehow of rank and fetid life.
Extract from : « The Raid on the Termites » by Paul Ernst

With the moon-suit removed, he realized the atmosphere was fetid and stifling.
Extract from : « The Copper-Clad World » by Harl Vincent

The exhaled breath has a peculiarly sickening and fetid odor.
Extract from : « Fasting Girls » by William Alexander Hammond

Synonyms for fetid

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