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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten.
  2. adj. Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction.
  3. adj. Morally rotten; corrupt: "and all the while scarlet thoughts, putrid fantasies, and no love” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  4. adj. Extremely objectionable; vile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a state of decay or putrefaction; exhibiting putrefaction; corrupt; fetid from rottenness; stinking: said of animal and vegetable bodies: as putrid flesh.
  2. Indicating a state of putrefaction; proceeding from or pertaining to putrefaction: as, a putrid scent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
  2. adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
  3. adj. Vile, disgusting.
  4. adj. morally corrupt
  5. adj. totally objectionable

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter. See putrefaction.
  2. adj. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. morally corrupt or evil
  2. adj. of or relating to or attended by putrefaction
  3. adj. in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor

Etymologies

  1. From Latin putridus ("rotten, decayed"), from pūtreō ("I am rotten or putrid"), from puter ("rotten, decaying, putrid"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English putred, from Old French putride, from Latin putridus, from putrēre, to be rotten, from puter, putr-, rotten; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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