rancid

Speech parts

1. rancid - Adjective

2. rancid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sour off rotten rank foul spoiled stale disgusting revolting stinking musty nauseating noisome tainted putrid
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Antonyms

new proper pure fresh acceptable clean
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Related terms

rancor rancidness rancidly rancidification

Phrases with the word

become rancid rancid bread go rancid more rancid turn rancid

Anagrams

darnic dracin Cardin carnid darcin

Examples

As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real. Samael Aun Weor

Syd was so full of whimsy as well as horrible gas. I swear to God that the early recording sessions of Pink Floyd always smelled like a strange mixture of rotten eggs, rancid cabbage, and crap. Syd Barrett

He is a critic of great gifts, insight and integrity; but those who are not entirely for him are wholly against him; he seeks not pupils but "disciples"; those disciples he has attracted who have not broken away have been, like the master, rancid and fanatic in manner. F. R. Leavis

I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race. Sarah Vowell

Whoever exchanges some lard for some other lard, one or the other must be rancid. Sicilian Proverb

Sleeps like a rancid herring. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

ranchslider ranchwoman ranchy rancid bread rancidification rancidify