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odoriferous
having or giving off a strong, often unpleasant smell
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Questions about “odoriferous”
Odoriferous (adjective) means having or giving off a strong, often unpleasant smell
Here is odoriferous used in an example sentence: "The odoriferous garbage had been sitting in the alley for days."
Common synonyms for odoriferous include pungent, malodorous, fetid, reeking.
Antonyms of odoriferous include odorless, fragrant, sweet-smelling.
Odoriferous is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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