Definitions for miasma

miasma mi·as·ma

Spelling: [mahy-az-muh, mee-]
IPA: /maɪˈæz mə, mi-/

Miasma is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in miasma (aaimms).

Definitions for miasma

noun

  1. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
  2. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

Origin of miasma

1655-65; New Latin Greek míasma stain, pollution, akin to miaínein to pollute, stain

Examples for miasma

It was as if Black Dan had dissolved into a miasma, and floated off.

The air of CGI is thick with the miasma of biz-school neologisms.

It has, it is true, absorbed thousands of elements of miasma and filthiness!

Otherwise we run the danger of suffocation from the miasma of vulgarity.

In the age of monarchy the king lived surrounded by a miasma of intrigue.

And there is no cramp in my heart, no miasma clinging to my senses.

And I wonder if what we are looking at with the “fly by” of Minneapolis might not be a form of miasma—called boredom.

I had to when you accused me of being like our friend the miasma.

My windows look into the pool and draw all the miasma out of it.

But, nevertheless, I am not so overcome by the miasma but what I can tell you how truly I love you.

Word Value for miasma
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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