Stink

Quick meaning: Stink is a verb meaning (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.

Meaning

(intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
2. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
3. (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
4. A strong bad smell.
5. (informal) A complaint or objection.
6. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Bad-smelling, stinky.
7. (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless.

Example Sentences

Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book.

Word Forms

• stinks
• stinking

Synonyms for stink

Depending on context, synonyms include pong, reek, suck, blow, fetor, odour.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reek, stench, malodor, fetor, malodour, foetor.

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