rancid

From Latin rancidus (“stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”), from *ranceō (“to stink”) (sense in Middle Latin), from whence also English rancor, in Latin used only in present participle rancēns (“stinking”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹænsɪd/

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rancid (comparative more rancid, superlative most rancid)

1. Rank in taste or smell.

   The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.

2. Offensive.

   Her remarks were rancid; everyone got up and left.

• Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.

• rancidification
• rancidly
• rancidness
• rancor

• “rancid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rancid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rancid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Cardin, carnid, darcin, dracin