1. 1

    Malodorous means smelling unpleasant. It is a formal, slightly stiff or jokey-high word for . You meet it in writing more than in talk: a malodorous drain, malodorous cheese, a malodorous . In everyday speech people say , , or “it smells bad.” It does not tell you what kind of bad smell — only that the smell is unwelcome. Though actually, odorous on its own can mean “having a smell,” not always a bad one; the mal- is what makes it bad.

    惡臭的(口語多說「很難聞的」)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成mal- (badly) + odorous (having a smell)

同家族的字

  • odora smell (also spelled odour)
  • odoroushaving a smell — not always a bad one until mal- is added

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

malodorousadj/ˌmælˈəʊ.də.ɹəs/

  • 1

    Having a bad odor.

    • There were malodorous garbage bags aplenty outside her house.
  • 2

    Highly improper.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。