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Adjectives (13)
noxious
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
foul, vile, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
foul, funky, putrid, fetid, foul-smelling, smelly, stinking
adj. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
Fuzzynyms (92)
hateful
adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
livery, bilious, liverish
adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
abominable, execrable, detestable, odious
adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous
adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
sick, nauseated, queasy, sickish
adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
abusive, opprobrious, insulting, scornful, scurrilous
adj. expressing offensive reproach
jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting
adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
adj. not pleasing in odor or taste
flat, insipid, bland, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless
adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
tasteless
adj. lacking flavor
nasty
adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
common, crude, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
profane
adj. not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, violent, butcherly
adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
bloody
adj. having or covered with or accompanied by blood; "a bloody nose"; "your scarf is all bloody"; "the effects will be violent and probably bloody"; "a bloody fight"
ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid, macabre
adj. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
ugly, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible
adj. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
caitiff, despicable
adj. despicably mean and cowardly
infernal
adj. being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"
damnable, execrable
adj. deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
base, ugly, vile
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
contemptible
adj. deserving of contempt or scorn
Synonyms (61)
unhealthful, unhealthy, insalubrious
adj. detrimental to health
insubstantial, jejune
adj. lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"
morbid
adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
offensive, loathsome
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant
adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
gross, swinish, bestial
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
ghastly, sepulchral, charnel
adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
crying, rank, gross, egregious, flagrant
adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative
adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
morbid, ghoulish
adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
hideous, horrid, outrageous
adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
scrimy
adj. dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine
verminous
adj. of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive
alliaceous
adj. smelling of onions or garlic
bilgy
adj. smelling like bilge water
fusty, musty, frowsty
adj. stale and unclean smelling
high, gamy, gamey
adj. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
miasmic, mephitic
adj. of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
niffy
adj. (British informal) malodorous
odoriferous, odorous
adj. emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"
rank
adj. having a strong unpleasant smell
reeking
adj. giving off a strong unpleasant smell
sour, rancid
adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness
Antonyms (2)
wholesome
adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"
fragrant
adj. pleasant-smelling
noisome
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