feculent

See also: féculent

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/

Adjective

feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)

  1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities
    Synonyms: turbid, sullied, foul, filthy, fetid
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:
      At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

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References
  • feculent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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