(smelling or tasting stale)

  • 1rank — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lush, luxuriant, vigorous; coarse; malodorous, fetid, rancid, offensive; arrant, extreme, gross. n. row, line; position, caste, quality; status, grade, standing, footing. See repute, badness, class …

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  • 2strong — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, able, able bodied, accented, acid, acrid, active, acute, adamantine, affluent, aggressive, aggressively, alcoholic, alveolar, animated, antagonistically, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, ardent,… …

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  • 3rancid — adjective 1》 (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being stale. 2》 highly unpleasant; repugnant. Derivatives rancidity noun rancidly adverb rancidness noun Origin C17: from L. rancidus stinking …

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  • 4rancid — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being stale. DERIVATIVES rancidity noun. ORIGIN Latin rancidus stinking …

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  • 5rancidity — rancid ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being stale. DERIVATIVES rancidity noun. ORIGIN Latin rancidus stinking …

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  • 6moldiness — noun the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy • Syn: ↑mustiness, ↑must • Derivationally related forms: ↑moldy, ↑musty (for: ↑must), ↑musty ( …

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  • 7mustiness — noun the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy • Syn: ↑must, ↑moldiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑moldy (for: ↑moldiness), ↑musty (for: ↑ …

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  • 8rancid — adj. smelling or tasting like rank stale fat. Derivatives: rancidity n. rancidness n. Etymology: L rancidus stinking …

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  • 9gamy — Synonyms and related words: bad, bad smelling, blown, bulldoggish, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, game, graveolent, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high, high tasted, ill smelling, malodorous, mephitic, mettlesome,… …

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  • 10high — Synonyms and related words: Dutch courage, Gymnasium, Hydromatic, Latin school, Olympian, Realgymnasium, Realschule, a bit much, a high, abandoned, above, abovestairs, academy, accented, acme, acute, aerial, afflicted, aged, aggrandized, agog,… …

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