stinking
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
stinking
adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn:
{icky}, {crappy}, {lousy}, {rotten}, {shitty},
{stinking}, {stinky}]
2: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled
really funky" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid}, {foul}, {foul-
smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {stinking}, {ill-
scented}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stink \Stink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stunk}, {Stank}, p. pr. &
vb. n. {Stinking}.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether
good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to
stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to
spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf.
{Stench}.]
To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting
odor.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinking":
abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy,
brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy,
creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty,
disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid,
forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty,
gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful,
heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated,
intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous,
maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating,
nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed,
pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid,
rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty,
sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled,
stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked,
terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile,
villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky
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