adjective
- offensive to the smell.
- noxious; pestilential; poisonous.
adjective
- poisonous; foul
- foul-smelling; putrid
adj.1620s, “of poisonous smell,” from Late Latin mephiticus, from Latin mephitis, mefitis “noxious vapor” (also personified as a goddess believed to have the power to avert it). adj.
- Having a foul odor; foul-smelling.