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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (smellier; -est) Date: 1862 having a smell; especially malodorous <smelly socks>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (smellier, smelliest) having a strong or unpleasant smell. Derivatives: smelliness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(smellier, smelliest) Something that is smelly has an unpleasant smell. He had extremely smelly feet... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

aromatic, bad, bad-smelling, effluvious, fecal, fetid, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorant, odored, odoriferous, odorous, offensive, olid, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, redolent, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, smellful, smelling, smellsome, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, vile