Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten.
- adj. Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction.
- adj. Morally rotten; corrupt: "and all the while scarlet thoughts, putrid fantasies, and no love” ( Louis Auchincloss).
- adj. Extremely objectionable; vile.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a state of decay or putrefaction; exhibiting putrefaction; corrupt; fetid from rottenness; stinking: said of animal and vegetable bodies: as putrid flesh.
- Indicating a state of putrefaction; proceeding from or pertaining to putrefaction: as, a putrid scent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
- adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
- adj. Vile, disgusting.
- adj. morally corrupt
- adj. totally objectionable
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter. See putrefaction.
- adj. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. morally corrupt or evil
- adj. of or relating to or attended by putrefaction
- adj. in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
Etymologies
- From Latin putridus ("rotten, decayed"), from pūtreō ("I am rotten or putrid"), from puter ("rotten, decaying, putrid"). (Wiktionary)
- 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)
Examples
“And when we tried to cheer him up with the prospect of a second Waterloo, the Waterloo that all the war-correspondents said was coming off next week, he refused to listen to what he called our putrid gabble.”
“Joe had NO right to jabber about morality since he has NONE, and his support for the Iraq occupation fiasco is plain putrid, as well as his defense of the vile Bush Regime, so Sen. Clinton helping him is strange!”
“Lol post 59 that letter from Verizon is plain putrid!”
“How did the richest country on Earth end up watching children cry for food in putrid encampments on the evening news?”
“The air inside became putrid from the odors that accompanied the abnormal body functions associated with dysentery and the urine-soaked clothes the men were wearing.”
“This dangerous disease is sometimes called putrid or ulcerous sore throat.”
“And the women said about 50 percent of men who had gonorrhea had sweat that smelled "putrid," whereas only 32 percent of the healthy men were described as putrid.”
“Is it not from hence that have come forth Marcions and Valentinuses and the detestable heresy of the Manicheans which you may, without going far wrong, call the putrid humor of the churches?”
“One of my earliest recollections was to follow mother with my brothers and sisters, each child carrying a plate filled with food from the table for the convalescents, and, although at this day contagious diseases are so carefully avoided, I can remember going fearlessly in and out of the cabins, carrying dainty dishes to many little ones who were suffering with what they then called putrid sore throat.”
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