Smelly vs Effluviant - What's the difference?
smelly | effluviant |
Having a bad smell.
(figuratively) having a quality that arouses suspicion.
(figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Of inferior quality.
Of or pertaining to effluvium.
Offensively smelly.
* "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," ''Richmond Daily Dispatch [http://imls.richmond.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ddr;cc=ddr;idno=ddr0886.0025.062;view=text;rgn=div3;node=ddr0886.0025.062%3A3.3.2],''Sept. 11, 1863
As adjectives the difference between smelly and effluviant
is that smelly is having a bad smell while effluviant is of or pertaining to effluvium.smelly
English
Adjective
(er)- She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly .
- The detective read the documents and thought, "Something sure is smelly about this case".
- That smelly code needs to be refactored.
