Word info Synonyms Antonyms

putrid

Speech parts

1. putrid - Adjective

2. putrid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

Anagrams

Examples

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Henryk Sienkiewicz

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. Dorothy Day

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. James Lind

He who does not love their national language is worse than a putrid fish. Filipino Proverb

Puffed goods are putrid. Latin Proverb

Water long stagnant becomes putrid. Persian Proverb

Close letter words and terms