STINKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stinking mean? 

• STINKING (adjective)
  The adjective STINKING has 2 senses:

1. very bad

2. offensively malodorous

  Familiarity information: STINKING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STINKING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very bad

Synonyms:

crappy; icky; lousy; rotten; shitty; stinking; stinky

Context example:

it's a stinking world

Similar:

bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Offensively malodorous

Synonyms:

fetid; foetid; foul; foul-smelling; funky; ill-scented; noisome; smelly; stinking

Context example:

the kitchen smelled really funky

Similar:

ill-smelling; malodorous; malodourous; stinky; unpleasant-smelling (having an unpleasant smell)

 Context examples 

I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And if you’ve money, my son, and know how to handle it and spread it, you can do anything! Now, you don’t think it likely that a man who could do anything is going to wear his breeches out sitting in the stinking hold of a rat-gutted, beetle-ridden, mouldy old coffin of a China coaster.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)