miasmic

English

Etymology

miasma +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈæzmɪk/
• Rhymes: -æzmɪk

Adjective

miasmic (comparative more miasmic, superlative most miasmic)

1. Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
   • 1965, Stephen Longstreet, War in the Golden Weather: A Novel, page 335:

     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.

2. Composed of or resembling vapors.
   • 1974, Adi Da Samraj, Saniel Bonder, and Terry Patten, Garbage and the Goddess: The Last Miracles and Final Spiritual Instructions of Bubba Free John,^[1] →ISBN, Dawn Horse Press, page 186:

     Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.

   • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111:

     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.