What does fetid mean?
Fetid means Foul-smelling, stinking..
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/ˈfɛtɪd/ · adjective
Foul-smelling, stinking..
I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.
[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.
Hiro fakes toward the whorehouse, then cuts directly toward an exposed section of wall. The fabric of the building is tough, but his katana slices a six-foot rent through it with a single gliding motion, and then he's outside, spat out of the hole on a jet of fetid air.
"I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted.
Use fetid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fetid means Foul-smelling, stinking..
Common synonyms include foul, malodorous, putrid, foetid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.
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