feculent

[ fek-yuh-luhnt ]

adjective

1. full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.

feculent

/ ˈfɛkjʊlənt /

adjective

1. filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul
2. of the nature of or containing waste matter

Derived Forms

• ˈfeculence, noun

Other Words From

• fecu·lence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of feculent¹

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin faeculentus full of dregs. See feces, -ulent

Word History and Origins

Origin of feculent¹

C15: from Latin faeculentus ; see faeces

Example Sentences

The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times

Though its storage tanks are empty, the feculent odor of its cargo is unmistakable.

From New York Times

The less time “feculent” poisons reside in our colons, the thinking went, the less we absorb into our blood, and the healthier we’ll be.

From Salon

Michael told the driver to stop for one moment, and he leaned forward over the apron of the cab to survey the cross-street of swarming feculent humanity that was presumably the entering highway.

From Project Gutenberg

Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• contaminated
• disagreeable
• fetid
• moldy
• musty
• polluted
• putrid
• smelly
• soured
• stale
• tainted