Search Result for "odorous":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. having odor or a characteristic odor;
- Example: "odorous jasmine flowers"
- Example: "odorous garbage"
- Example: "fresh odorous bread"
2. emitting an odor;
- Example: "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"
[syn: odoriferous, odorous]
3. having a natural fragrance;
- Example: "odoriferous spices"
- Example: "the odorous air of the orchard"
- Example: "the perfumed air of June"
- Example: "scented flowers"
[syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Odorous \O"dor*ous\, a. [Written also odourous.] [L. odorus, fr. odor odor: cf. OF. odoros, odoreux.] Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." --Keble. [1913 Webster] Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "odorous": ambrosial, aromatic, bad, bad-smelling, balmy, effluvious, essenced, fecal, fetid, flowery, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fruity, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, heady, high, ill-smelling, incense-breathing, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musky, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorant, odorate, odored, odoriferous, offensive, olfactive, olfactory, olid, perfumed, perfumy, pungent, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, redolent, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, savory, scented, scentless, smellful, smelling, smellsome, smelly, spicy, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, thuriferous, vile
