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say it: RAN-sid
rancid is an adjective meaning "(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
“rancid butter”
“rancid bacon”
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rancid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.