Feculent

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈfÉ›kjÊŠlÉ™nt/

Alternative forms

• fæculent obsolete

Origin

From Middle French féculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

Full definition of feculent

Adjective

1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.
• 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.