What does mephitic mean?
Mephitic means Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere..
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/ˌmɛˈfɪ.tɪk/ · adjective
Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere..
"I could have borne the sight of his crutch," said she, "but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour."
It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.
More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.
Use mephitic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mephitic means Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere..
Common synonyms include malodorous, miasmic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"I could have borne the sight of his crutch," said she, "but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour."
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