rancid.
Rank in taste or smell.
Meaning & usage
Rank in taste or smell.
The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
Offensive. Unpleasant.
Her remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin ranceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin ranciduslbor. English rancid Learned borrowing from Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”).
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