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Roget's Thesaurus

#401. Fetor

Nouns

fetor; bad etc. adj.. smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma; mustiness etc. adj.; rancidity; foulness etc. (uncleanness) 653. stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary. acridity etc. 401a.

Verbs

have a bad smell etc. n.; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat; smell strong etc. adj., smell offensively.

Adjectives

fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy; olid, olidous; nidorous; smelling, stinking; putrid etc. 653; suffocating, mephitic; empyreumatic.

#401a. Acridity

Nouns

acridity, astringency, bite. [acrid substances] tear gas; smoke, acrid fumes.

Adjectives

acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh; bitter etc. 392b.


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