Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of foul or impure matter; fecal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; turbid; offensive; consisting of or abounding with dregs, sediment, or excrementitious matter.
Wiktionary
- adj. Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. foul with waste matter
Etymologies
- Latin faeculentus, from faecula: confer French féculent. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin faeculentus, heavy with sediment, from faex, faec-, dregs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The highest number of feculent cell phones was found in London: 28 percent.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You
“I assure you that they are studded with feculent tidbits of loathsome vileness, mostly in the form of links to websites explaining how Obama is exactly the same as Hitler and why it's important to defend white culture.”
“By March 1824 she was paralyzed on the left side and vomiting "vast quantities of feculent blood"; she was also covered with ulcers exuding such a terrible odor that it was difficult for even family members to be near her.”
“He chose as the party's epitaph a statement from a Massachusetts senator, Rufus Choate: "Any thing more low, obscene and feculent the manifold heavings of history have not cast up.”
The Huffington Post: Martin Nolan: Arizona for Arizonans, Now!
“When asked for assistance by constituent veterans, the Mayor's Office of Veterans 'Affairs and other local and state leaders repeatedly regurgitate the same by now feculent phrase.”
“My far too beautiful wife, who promises one day to reveal to me her name, was tossing a ball into the feculent surf for the dog to retrieve.”
“When asked for assistance by constituent veterans, the Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs and other local and state leaders repeatedly regurgitate the same by now feculent phrase.”
The Huffington Post: Luis Carlos Montalván: Mayor MIA on Veterans' Affairs
“If the former, then it must amount to a serious own goal, for all who oppose this gutless dishonourable man will now be able to throw this phrase into the faces of those who wallow in the feculent midden of lies and turpitude that is the Labour Party, who brandish their manifesto as the being the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with their hand behind their backs, fingers-crossed.”
“Always excellent to remember the staggering intelligence and depth of the feculent ones of the Left.”
“The new arrivals were on a collision course with the District of Columbia Police Department and the feculent streets of Mt. Pleasant would soon mix eddies of high BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) blood to the beer and piss on the pavement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘feculent’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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In the News
Words from politics, news, and business
sedition, juridical, feckless, austerity, debenture, sovereign, subterfuge, amicus, obfuscate, transparency, usurp, paradox and 26 more...
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cxfx's list
callipygous, scaphism, ubermorgen, handschuhschneeba..., farctate, autohagiography, autolatry, spindrift, feculent, verisimilitude, brobdingnagian, ineluctable and 205 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 120 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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redtagevent's Words
exiguous, numen, recondite, concatenate, tuistic, interstitial, peroration, asperity, alacrity, expatiate, farouche, rhodomontade and 112 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Vocab List 2
bruit, smite, malapropism, tricorn, tenebrous, mawkish, disjunctive, mammon, lothario, embonpoint, pabulum, pother and 148 more...
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coolio
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whichbe Covered with filth; filthy. (from Phrontistery) May 24, 2008