unpleasant-smelling

Questions about unpleasant-smelling

What does unpleasant-smelling mean?

unpleasant-smelling means "having an unpleasant smell".

How many syllables are in unpleasant-smelling?

unpleasant-smelling has 6 syllables: un-ple-a-sant--smel-ling. The stress falls on "sant-".

What is another word for unpleasant-smelling?

Close synonyms include malodorous, malodourous, ill-smelling, stinky. 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 unpleasant-smelling a common word?

unpleasant-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.