Overview of verb stink

The verb stink has 2 senses

• stink -- (be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; "This term paper stinks!")


• reek, stink -- (smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke")

Overview of adj stinking

The adj stinking has 2 senses

• icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky -- (very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world")


• fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented -- (offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky")