rancid
adjective
[ ˈransɪd ]
• (of foods containing fat or oil) smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.
• "rancid meat"
Similar:
sour,
stale,
turned,
rank,
putrid,
foul,
rotten,
bad,
off,
old,
tainted,
gamy,
high,
fetid,
stinking,
malodorous,
foul-smelling,
evil-smelling,
unpleasant,
noxious,
revolting,
nasty,
sickening,
offensive,
noisome,
mephitic,
miasmic,
miasmal,
olid,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin rancidus ‘stinking’.
