Stinkiest

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Exhibiting the highest level of undesirable or noxious odor
2. Possessing the greatest intensity of a bad or offensive odor
3. Characterized by the most powerful and disagreeable scent

Etymology: "Stinkiest" is an inflected form: the superlative of "stinky," meaning the most foul-smelling of all. It is built from "stinky" plus the superlative ending "-iest," the same pattern that turns "happy" into "happiest." "Stinky" itself goes back to Middle English, where it was formed from "stink" with the suffix "-y," meaning "having the quality of." The same formation appears across the Low German and Dutch family, where cognates such as Dutch "stinkig" and German "stinkig" carry the same sense of foulness, showing that the adjective is a shared Germanic building block rather than a single English invention.

Synonyms: foulest, rankest

Antonyms: freshest, sweetest