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Distasteful vs Fetid - What's the difference?

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Distasteful is a related term of fetid.


As adjectives the difference between distasteful and fetid

is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while fetid is stinking, fetid.

distasteful

English

Alternative forms

* distastefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing

    fetid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Foul-smelling, stinking.
    • I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.