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Malodor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A bad odor; a stench. See Synonyms at stench.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. an offensive odor

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An offensive odor.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An offensive odor; a stench.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

Word Usage

"By the age of 5, his talent for sniffing out every kind of malodor is already evident, but nothing prepares him for what he encounters after being sold as an apprentice to a tannery run by a vicious brute replete with boils."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

smell odor olfactory perception olfactory sensation odour

Hyponym

niff pong

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

smell