putrid-smelling

1. 1.

   having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter

   Similarmalodorous

Questions about putrid-smelling

What does putrid-smelling mean?

putrid-smelling means "having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter".

How many syllables are in putrid-smelling?

putrid-smelling has 4 syllables: pu-trid--smel-ling. The stress falls on "trid-".

Is putrid-smelling a common word?

putrid-smelling 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.