Meanings
adjectivemiasmal (comparative more miasmal, superlative most miasmal)
comparative more miasmal · superlative most miasmal
- Having a noxious atmosphere.
A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196
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Esperanto miasma
- miasmahaving a noxious atmosphere.
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miasmal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miasmal
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