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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition;
- Example: "rancid butter"
- Example: "rancid bacon"

2. smelling of fermentation or staleness;
[syn: sour, rancid]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rancid \Ran"cid\ (r[a^]n"s[i^]d), a. [L. rancidus, fr. rancere to be rancid or rank.] Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rancid adj 1: (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon" 2: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: sour, rancid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "rancid": awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, blown, brackish, cloying, corrupt, decayed, disagreeable, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, high, icky, ill-smelling, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odious, odorous, off, offensive, olid, overripe, poisonous, putrid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, ripe, rotten, sickening, smellful, smelling, smelly, sour, soured, spoiled, spoilt, stale, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tainted, turned, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky