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| Main Entry: | musty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuffy, aged |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antediluvian, antique, crumbling, dank, decayed, decrepit, dirty, dry, fetid, filthy, frowzy*, malodorous, moldy, moth-eaten*, noisome, old, putrid, rotten, smelly, spoiled, squalid, stale, stuffy, airless, dried-out, mildewed, mildewy |
| Antonyms: | clean, clear, new, sweet-smelling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | musty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn-out, clichéd |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, dull, hackneyed, hoary, obsolete, old hat, old-fashioned, shopworn*, stale, threadbare, timeworn*, tired, trite, worn, stereotypical, warmed-over |
| Antonyms: | new, unused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | malodorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, decayed, fetid, foul, frowzy, funky*, gamy*, high*, infested, lousy, mephitic, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, off*, offensive, poisonous, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, smelly, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, vile, decomposed, fusty, pestilential, polluted, reeking, stenchful |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, fragrant, perfumed, savory, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | odorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having fragrance |
| Synonyms: | aromatic, balmy, dank, fetid, flavorsome, flowery, foul, fragrant, heady, honeyed, loud, malodorous, mephitic, moldy, musty, nauseous, offensive, perfumed, pungent, putrid, redolent, rotten, savory, scented, smelly, spicy, stagnant, stale, stinking, strong, sweet, unsavory, effluvious, miasmic, odoriferant, odoriferous, olfactive, olfactory, perfumatory, perfumy, reeking, savorous, scent-laden, scentful, skunky, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, tumaceous, whiffy |
| Notes: | odoriferous means 'having an odor or fragrance' while odorous refers to something smelly |
| Antonyms: | odorless |
| Main Entry: | old-fashioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antiquated |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times*, behind the times, bygone, corny*, dated, dead*, dowdy*, extinct, moldy*, musty, neglected, obsolescent, obsolete, obsolete, odd*, old, old-time, out*, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outmoded, passé*, passé, past, primitive, rococo*, superannuated, unfashionable, vintage, demoded, disapproved, démodé, grown old, not current, not modern, not with it, of old, of olden days, of the old school, of the old school, old-fangled, old-hat, olden, oldfangled, out of it, out of style, out-of-style, outworn, unstylish |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, in vogue, modern, new |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outdated/out-of-date |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times*, dated, dusty, moth-eaten*, musty, obsolete, old, out, outmoded, passé, square, tired, unfashionable, vintage, anachronous, back number, démodé, has-been, not with it, old-hat, out-of-style |
| Antonyms: | current, fashionable, modern, new, popular, up-to-date |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outmoded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obsolete, old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times*, bent, bygone, dated, dead, extinct, moldy*, moth-eaten*, musty*, obsolescent, obsolete, old-time, out, out-of-date, passé*, superannuated, superseded, tired, unfashionable, vintage, anachronistic, dinosaur, disused, démodé, fossilized, has-been, horse and buggy, old-hat, olden, out-of-style, outworn, unstylish, unusable |
| Antonyms: | current, modern, new, popular, up-to-date, new-fangled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rancid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, strong-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, foul, frowzy, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, putrid, rank, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, unhealthy, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, nidorous, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, reeky, soured, turned, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | squalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, run-down |
| Synonyms: | abominable, base, broken-down, decayed, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, gruesome, horrible, ignoble, impure, low, mean, moldy, muddy, musty, nasty, odorous, offensive, poverty-stricken, ramshackle, repellent, repulsive, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, soiled, sordid, ugly, unclean, unkempt, vile, wretched, horrid, miry, reeking, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, rich, kept-up |
| Main Entry: | trite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, chain, cliché, common, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, jejune, moth-eaten*, musty*, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill*, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, vapid, worn, worn-out, bathetic, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, familiar tune, mildewed, platitudinous, used-up, warmed-over, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | desirable, important, impressive, original, pertinent, relevant, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinking, foul |
| Synonyms: | bad, dank, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, funky*, gamy*, gross*, high, humid, loathsome, mephitic, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, off, offensive, pungent, putrid, rancid, repulsive, revolting, smelly, sour, stale, strong, tainted, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, graveolent, olid, putrescent, reeking, strong-smelling, turned |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, perfumed, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tasting; gone bad |
| Synonyms: | acetic, acid, acidic, acrid, astringent, bad, biting, bitter, briny, caustic, cutting, dry, green, keen, musty, peppery, piquant, pungent, rancid, salty, sharp, stinging, tart, unpleasant, unripe, unsavory, unwholesome, acerb, acetose, acetous, acidulated, curdled, fermented, soured, sourish, turned, vinegary, with a kick |
| Antonyms: | good, pleasant, sweet, tasty |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old, decayed |
| Synonyms: | dried, dry, faded, fetid, flat, hard, insipid, malodorous, musty, noisome, parched, rank, smelly, sour, spoiled, stagnant, stinking, tasteless, watery, weak, fusty, reeking, stenchy, zestless |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new |
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
| Synonyms: | Victorian*, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, genteel, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced*, uninteresting, fusty, humorless, prim and proper |
| Antonyms: | current, informal, modern, new |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | threadbare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, corny |
| Synonyms: | banal, cliché, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, everyday, familiar, hackneyed, imitative, moth-eaten*, musty, poor, set, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, tired, worn-out, bathetic, cliché-ridden, clichéd, overused, uncreative, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | fresh, unused, unworn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oppressive, humid |
| Synonyms: | breathless, confined, heavy, moldy, motionless, muggy, musty, stagnant, stale, sticky, stuffy, sultry, sweltering, thick, tight, uncomfortable, airless, choky, fusty, stale-smelling, stifling, suffocating, sweltry, unventilated |
| Antonyms: | cool, dry |
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| Main Entry: | filthiness |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Augean, abominable, amurcous, bad, beastly, bloody, camarine, carious, coarse, colluvial, conspurcated, corrupt, crapulous, dirty, dowdy, draggletailed, dreggy, duddie, dusty, effete, excrementitious, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fimetic, flothery, flyblown, foul, frowzy, fusty, gory, grimy, gross, gurry, high, immund, impetiginous, impure, inquinated, maculate, maggoty, meraculous, mildewed, moldy, moth, musty, nasty, offensive, peccant, pedicular, pulicose, purulent, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, pythogenic, quisquilian, rancid, reasty, reechy, reeky, rotten, rotting, ruderous, rusty, scumbered, scurfy, slimy, slovenly, sluttish, smoky, smutty, snuffy, soiled, sooty, stercoraceous, sterquilinian, tainted, tatterdemalion, thick, touched, turbid, tuzzimuzzy, unclean, uncleanly, uncombed, unkempt, unpurified, unscoured, unstrained, unswept, untidy, unwashed, unwiped
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| Main Entry: | stench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bad, caprylic, corky, empyreumatic, feculent, fetid, foul, frowzy, fulsome, fusty, graveolent, halitotic, high, jumentous, maleolent, malodorous, mephitic, miasmatic, mucid, musty, nidorous, noisome, offensive, olid, olidous, putrescent, putrid, rafty, rammish, rancid, rank, reasty, saprostomous, smelling, smelly, stinking, stinky, strong, strong smelling, suffocating, tainted
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