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miasmic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /maɪˈæzmɪk/

Etymology

From miasma + -ic.

Meanings

1. Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
   • Will thought of the shadowy miasmic forest they would all soon move into, a way of living that was an inversion of all their values. 1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather: A Novel, page 335:
2. Composed of or resembling vapors.
   • Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind. 1974, Adi Da Samraj, Saniel Bonder, and Terry Patten, Garbage and the Goddess: The Last Miracles and Final Spiritual Instructions of Bubba Free John, Dawn Horse Press, page 186
   • Claire and I met Mr. and Mrs. M., “Phil ‘n’ Irene,” one delicious day months ago when we looked over the fence and were assaulted by miasmic wafts of smoke and a happy holler from Mr. M. wearing a dinner’s on apron. 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111:

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Deriveds

miasmically