Adjective: stinky (stinkier,stinkiest) sting-kee
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Having an unpleasant smell
"The stinky garbage needed to be taken out immediately";
- malodorous, malodourous [Brit, Cdn, non-standard], unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, pongy [Brit, informal], whiffy [Brit, informal], minging [Brit, informal], niffy [Brit, informal]
- Very bad
"a stinky play";
- icky [informal], lousy [informal], rotten [informal], stinking [informal], rubbish [Brit, informal], crummy [informal], dire [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: stinkiest, stinkier
See also: bad, bilgy, fetid, foetid [Brit], foul, foul-smelling, frowsty [Brit, informal], funky [N. Amer, informal], fusty, gamey, gamy, high, ill-scented, mephitic, miasmatic, miasmic, musty, noisome, odiferous, odoriferous, odorous, olid [literary], putrid-smelling, rancid, rank-smelling, reeking, ripe [informal], smelly, sour, stinking
Encyclopedia: Stinky, Ukraine