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 and divides as un-ple-a-sant--smel-ling 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 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.