miasmic

Questions about miasmic

What does miasmic mean?

miasmic means "of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in miasmic?

miasmic has 3 syllables and divides as mi-a-smic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for miasmic?

Close synonyms include mephitic, miasmal, vaporous, vapourous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miasmic a common word?

miasmic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.