1. Having an offensive or unpleasant smell
   "The stinking garbage needed to be removed";
   - fetid, foetid [Brit], foul, foul-smelling, funky [N. Amer, informal], noisome, smelly, ill-scented, olid [literary]
    
2. [informal] Very bad
   "it's a stinking world";
   - icky [informal], lousy [informal], rotten [informal], stinky [informal], rubbish [Brit, informal], crummy [informal], dire [Brit, informal]

1. Smell badly and offensively
   "The building stinks of smoke";
   - reek, hum [Brit, informal]
    
2. [informal] Be inadequate or objectionable
   "this stinks!";
   - suck [informal], blow [informal]

See also: bad, ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], minging [Brit, informal], niffy [Brit, informal], pongy [Brit, informal], stink out, stinky [informal], unpleasant-smelling, whiffy [Brit, informal]

Type of: be, exist, smell

Encyclopedia: Stinking