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View synonyms for mephitic

mephitic

[ muh-fit-ik ]

adjective

  1. offensive to the smell.
  2. noxious; pestilential; poisonous.


mephitic

/ mɪˈfɪtɪk /

adjective

  1. poisonous; foul
  2. foul-smelling; putrid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • meˈphitically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • me·phiti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mephitic1

From the Late Latin word mephīticus, dating back to 1615–25. See mephitis, -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mephitic1

C17: from Late Latin mephīticus pestilential
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Example Sentences

I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge.

A sluggish stream filled the city with stagnant water from which mephitic vapors arose.

The illusion will be heightened by characteristic scenery and mephitic exhalations.

They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights.

At last both fell together, the knight being exhausted by the fatigue of the conflict, or by mephitic exhalations.

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