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Definition: Putrefactive |
PutrefactiveAdjective1. Causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "putrefactive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Synonym: PutrefactiveSynonym: putrefacient (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Putrefactive |
| English words defined with "putrefactive": Aerobies ♦ ptomain, ptomaine, Putredinous ♦ sapraemia, sapremia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "putrefactive": septicaemia. (references) |
Expression using "putrefactive": Putrefactive fermentation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "putrefactive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معفن, آسن (putrid, stagnancy, stagnant, stagnation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разложителен, гнилостен (saprogenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hnijící (putrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forraadnelsesbakterie (putrefactive bacteria), forrådnelsesbakterie (decay organism, putrefactive organism), diarrhoea putrefaciens (putrefactive diarrhea, putrefactive diarrhoea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rottingsbakterie (decay organism, putrefactive organism), rottingsbacterie (decay organism, putrefactive bacteria, putrefactive organism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mädättäjäbakteeri (putrefactive bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | putréfié. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | faulig (addled, bad, foul, going bad, going off, going rotten, putrid, rotten, stagnating, stale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σηπτικόσ (septic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרקיב (putrescent, putrid), מק (decay, putrefaction, rot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rothasztó, korhasztó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | microbi che causano la putrefazione (decay organism, putrefactive organism), batterio della putrefazione (putrefactive bacteria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, decayed, foul, gangrenous, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate, stale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utrefactivepay putrefativo, putrefaciente. (various references) вызывающий гниение (saprogenic, saprogenous). (various references) koji izaziva truljenje (saprogenic). (various references) diarrea de putrefacción (putrefactive diarrhea, putrefactive diarrhoea), bacteria putrificante (putrefactive bacteria). (various references) förruttnelse-. (various references) kokmuş (addle, bad, fetid, flyblown, niffy, putrefacient, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, smelly, stinky, tainted), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), çürüten (cankerous, putrefacient), çürütücü (cankerous, corrosive, corruptive, putrefacient, septic), çürümüş (black and blue, blue, carious, decayed, decomposed, putrefacient, rotten, went bad), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references) гнильний (putrescent, putrid). (various references) l m thối rữa; thối rữa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Putrefactive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pluriactive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "putrefactive" (pronounced 'Pu`tre*fac"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, inactive, inattentive, instinctive, introspective, irrespective, irruptive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-p-r-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: vituperate. | |
-3 letters: crepitate. | |
-4 letters: creative, curative, eructate, eruptive, feterita, perfecta, praefect, putative, reactive, tractive, trifecta, urticate. | |
-5 letters: ariette, captive, capture, cattier, cavetti, citrate, cuprite, curette, curtate, cuvette, epicure, eucrite, facture, fattier, feature, furcate, furtive, iterate, paretic, partite, peatier, pectate, perfect, pettier, picrate, picture, preface, prefect, private, puttier, receipt, tartufe, tipcart, tuftier. | |
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