maggoty as an adjective: - 1
maggoty
adjective
1 maggoty
Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies:
— A sack of maggoty apricots.
synonym: flyblown.
Roget 608:
capricious;
erratic,
eccentric,
fitful,
hysterical;
full of whims
etc.
n.;
maggoty;
inconsistent,
fanciful,
fantastic,
whimsical,
crotchety,
kinky [U.S.],
particular,
humorsome†,
freakish,
skittish,
wanton,
wayward;
contrary;
captious;
arbitrary;
unconformable
etc.
83;
penny wise and pound foolish;
fickle
etc.
(irresolute)
605;
frivolous,
sleeveless,
giddy,
volatile.
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Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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Moby thesaurus: Gothic, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bad, barfy, baroque, bizarre, blasted, blighted, blown, brackish, brain-born, capricious, cloying, crank, crankish, cranky, crappy, crotchety, despoiled, deviant, deviative, different, disgusting, divergent, dotty, dream-built, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied, fantasque, fantastic, fecal, feculent, fetid, fey, filthy, flaky, florid, flyblown, foul, freakish, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fulsome, funny, fusty, gloppy, grotesque, gunky, harebrained, high, humorsome, icky, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky, kooky, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moody, moth-eaten, motiveless, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, notional, noxious, nutty, odd, oddball, odious, offensive, ordurous, outlandish, overripe, peculiar, petulant, poisonous, preposterous, puky, putrid, queer, quirky, rancid, rank, ravaged, rebarbative, repulsive, rococo, rotten, scabby, screwball, screwy, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, singular, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, strange, temperamental, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, vile, vomity, wacky, wanton, wayward, weevily, whimsical, wild, worm-eaten, wormy, yecchy, yucky ... show more.
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