Meaning & use
Odiferous
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Having a strong smell, often used to describe something unpleasant-smelling.
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The odiferous cheese made everyone in the kitchen wrinkle their noses.
An odiferous cloud of smoke drifted from the campfire.
A note on using this word
A shortened, informal variant of 'odoriferous'; both forms are recognized, though 'odiferous' is more common in casual speech.
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