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词汇 miasmic
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Definition of miasmic in English:

miasmic

adjective mɪˈazmɪkmʌɪˈazmɪkmīˈazmik
literary
  • 1Producing an unpleasant smell; noxious.

    that peculiarly miasmic atmosphere generated by small boys and adolescent teenagers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If you do not shake thoroughly, the pigment and the medium come out of the bottle in one miasmic clump.
    • The protagonist describes the miasmic ulcers that afflict everyone.
    • It was a nightmare illness; everything was fetid, miasmic, gangrenous.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, fetid, malodorous, pungent, acrid, rank, putrid, noxious
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, fetid, smelly, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, rank, high, putrid, noxious, malodorous
    1. 1.1 Characterized by a mysterious and unpleasant atmosphere; oppressive.
      we know the territory, its long and miasmic history
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His miasmic reputation has always overshadowed the guy's ability to write a really strong, catchy piece.
      • It did nothing to alleviate the depression, desperation and miasmic ennui that was engulfing me.
      • Is this a bureaucracy so miasmic that Peter honestly didn't know what Paul was doing?
      • The situation is exacerbated by the miasmic chaos of Spanish planning regulations.
      • Miasmic hallways, sputtering coffee machines, and jaundiced light haunt the Paris hospital in which much of the film unfolds, trumping all gruesome effects of disease.

Derivatives

  • miasmically

  • adverb
    literary
    • Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in, the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Who can stare the dragon of human despair in the face, which is so miasmically present in the subconscious of mankind, and wink at it?
      • And my characterization of your attitude is no lie; it positively rises miasmically from the swamp of your fallaciously ad hominem rhetoric.
      • Sometimes the sweat miasmically mingles in with the just-as-warm tears from my rubbed-raw eyes.
      • I mean that the posts themselves ought to be couched in a way that is not so miasmically depressing.

Rhymes

chasmic, cytoplasmic, ectoplasmic, orgasmic, phantasmic

Definition of miasmic in US English:

miasmic

adjectivemīˈazmik
literary
  • 1Producing an unpleasant smell; noxious.

    that peculiarly miasmic atmosphere generated by small boys and adolescent teenagers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The protagonist describes the miasmic ulcers that afflict everyone.
    • If you do not shake thoroughly, the pigment and the medium come out of the bottle in one miasmic clump.
    • It was a nightmare illness; everything was fetid, miasmic, gangrenous.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, fetid, malodorous, pungent, acrid, rank, putrid, noxious
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, fetid, smelly, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, rank, high, putrid, noxious, malodorous
    1. 1.1 Characterized by an oppressive and unpleasant atmosphere.
      we know the territory, its long and miasmic history
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Is this a bureaucracy so miasmic that Peter honestly didn't know what Paul was doing?
      • It did nothing to alleviate the depression, desperation and miasmic ennui that was engulfing me.
      • Miasmic hallways, sputtering coffee machines, and jaundiced light haunt the Paris hospital in which much of the film unfolds, trumping all gruesome effects of disease.
      • His miasmic reputation has always overshadowed the guy's ability to write a really strong, catchy piece.
      • The situation is exacerbated by the miasmic chaos of Spanish planning regulations.
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