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Definition: Putrescent |
PutrescentAdjective1. Becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "putrescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Putrescent \Pu*tres"cent\, adjective. [Latin expression putrescens, p. pr.of putrescere to grow rotten, verb. incho. from putrere to be rotten. See Putrid.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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: Putrescent |
| English words defined with "putrescent": Antiseptical ♦ Neuridin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "putrescent": Putresce. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Putrescent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (putrescent). |
| "Putrescent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Putrescent" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "putrescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعفن (moldy, mouldy, musty, putrid), تعفني (putrid), عغن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разлагащ се, гниещ (carrion), загниващ (moldy, mouldy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 腐烂 (rot, rotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | putrescens, forrådnende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | putrescent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | putrescent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | faulend (rotting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σηπομένοσ, σαπρόσ (putrid), αποσυντιθεμένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מורקב (putrid, rotten), מרקיב (putrefactive, putrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rothadó (decaying, festering, mouldering, rotting), poshadó, bűzös (feculent, nosy, putrid, rank, stenchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | busuk (bad, low, putrid, rotten, spoiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | putrescente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, decayed, foul, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate, stale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utrescentpay putrescente, fedorento (foul, malodorant, malodorous, offensive, stinking), fétido (feculent, foetid, malodorant, malodorous, noisome, rammish, rank, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) гниющий (carrion). (various references) putrescente, putrefacto (putrefied, putrid). (various references) ที่เน่าเปื่อย. (various references) kokuşmaya başlamış, çürümeye başlamış (sleepy), çürümekte olan. (various references) смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, noisome, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrid, smelly, stinking), гнильний (putrefactive, putrid), гнилий (bad, carious, carrion, rotten). (various references) có liên quan đến sự thối rữa; tiếp theo quá trình thối rữa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Putrescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: putrescine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "putrescent" (pronounced 'Pu*tres"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, -escent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, ignescent, incandescent, indecent, indehiscent, iridescent, liquescent, lucent, Lutescent, Maledicent, Manuducent, Marcescent, Maturescent, Nascent, Nigrescent, Obsolescent, Opalescent, Papescent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: curettes, percents, petuntse, precents, upsetter. | |
-3 letters: censure, centers, centres, curette, curtest, cutters, encrust, entrust, netters, neuters, nutters, pectens, penster, percent, pertest, petters, precent, precuts, present, pretest, punster, punters, puttees, putters, recepts, repents, reputes, respect, retunes, scepter, sceptre, scutter, serpent, specter, spectre, spencer, sputter, tenrecs, tenters, tenures, tercets, trustee, tureens. | |
-4 letters: censer, center, centre. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-p-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: counterstep. | |
+2 letters: countersteps. | |
+4 letters: counterpickets, counterprotest, counterstepped, preconstructed, supercontinent. | |
+5 letters: counterprojects, counterprotests, counterstepping, supercontinents. | |
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