| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stinking, foul |
Synonyms: |
bad, dank, disagreeable, disgusting, evil-smelling, feculent, fetid, funky*, fusty, gamy, graveolent, gross*, high, humid, loathsome, mephitic, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, off, offensive, olid, pungent, putrescent, putrid, rancid, reeking, repulsive, revolting, smelly, sour, stale, strong, strong-smelling, tainted, turned |
Antonyms: |
aromatic, perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, luxurious |
Synonyms: |
coarse, dense, excessive, extreme, exuberant, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, grown, high-growing, junglelike, lavish, lush, luxuriant, overabundant, overgrown, productive, profuse, prolific, rampant, rich, semitropical, tropical, vigorous, wild |
Antonyms: |
rare, scarce, sparse |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | utter, absolute |
Synonyms: |
arrant, blatant, capital, complete, conspicuous, consummate, downright, egregious, excessive, extravagant, flagrant, glaring, gross, noticeable, outright, outstanding, perfect, positive, rampant, sheer, thorough, total, undisguised, unmitigated |
Antonyms: |
indefinite |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar |
Synonyms: |
abusive, atrocious, coarse, crass, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, nasty, outrageous, raunchy, scurrilous, shocking, smutty, wicked |
Antonyms: |
clean, moral |
| Main Entry: | conspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, prominent |
Synonyms: |
arresting, arrestive, blatant, celebrated, commanding, distinguished, eminent, famed, famous, flagrant, flashy, garish, glaring, glitzy, illustrious, influential, jazzy, loud, marked, notable, noted, notorious, outstanding, pointed, rank, remarkable, renowned, salient, screaming, showy, signal, splashy, stick out like sore thumb, striking, tony, well-known |
Antonyms: |
inconspicuous, obscure, unimportant, unknown, unremarkable |
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
Synonyms: |
addled, bad, carious, carrion, corroded, decomposed, effete, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rank, riddled, rotted, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered |
Antonyms: |
developing, flourishing, germinating, growing, improving, ripening |
| Main Entry: | egregious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outstandingly bad; outrageous |
Synonyms: |
arrant, atrocious, capital, deplorable, extreme, flagrant, glaring, grievous, gross*, heinous, infamous, insufferable, intolerable, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, outright, preposterous, rank, scandalous, shocking, stark |
| Notes: | egregious means conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; exceptional means well above average or surpassing what is common or usual or expected |
Antonyms: |
little, minor, secondary, slight |
| Main Entry: | faulty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working; incorrect |
Synonyms: |
adulterated, amiss, awry, bad, below par, blamable, blemished, botched, broken, cracked, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, distorted, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, flawed, frail, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, injured, insufficient, invalid, lame, leaky, lemon, maimed, malformed, malfunctioning, marred, out of order, rank, sick, tainted, unfit, unreliable, unretentive, unsound, warped, weak, wrong |
Antonyms: |
accurate, correct, perfect, sound, strong, working |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | fetid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul, rancid |
Synonyms: |
corrupt, fusty, grody, gross*, icky, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rank, reeking, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, smelly, stenchy, stinking, stinky, strong, yecchy, yucky |
Antonyms: |
aromatic, clean, fragrant, pure, sweet |