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English
Etymology
From miasma + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
miasmic (comparative more miasmic, superlative most miasmic)
- 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.
- 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, →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.