stinky

/ˈstɪŋki/

/ˈstɪŋki/

Stinky things smell bad. If your gym uniform is particularly stinky after a game of volleyball, you should probably wash it.

You might describe the gorgonzola cheese your sister loves as stinky. She, on the other hand, may object to your favorite perfume, describing it as stinky. Besides bad odors, the informal adjective stinky can also describe generally bad or rotten things: "You did a stinky job of cleaning the kitchen after you baked all that bread. There's flour everywhere!"

Definitions of stinky

1. adjective

   having an unpleasant smell
   synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling

   bilgy

   smelling like bilge water

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

   offensively malodorous

   frowsty, fusty, musty

   stale and unclean smelling

   gamey, gamy, high

   (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

   mephitic, miasmic

   of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution

   niffy

   (British informal) malodorous

   odoriferous, odorous

   emitting an odor

   putrid-smelling

   having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter

   rank-smelling

   having an offensive rancid odor

   reeking

   giving off a strong unpleasant smell

   rancid, sour

   smelling of fermentation or staleness
2. adjective

   very bad
   synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, stinking

   bad

   having undesirable or negative qualities