Word Meanings - AROMA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. 2. Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AROMA)

• Perfume
• Odor
• scent
• fragrance
• redolence
• aroma
• smell
• incense

Related words: (words related to AROMA)

• SCENTFUL
  1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
• PERFUME
  1. The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet- smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma. No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field. Pope. 2. A substance that emits an agreeable odor. And thou shalt make
• AROMATIZE
  To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.
• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• AROMA
  1. The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. 2. Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.
• PERFUMER
  1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
• AROMATIZATION
  The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• SCENT
  1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• SCENTINGLY
  By scent. Fuller.
• PERFUMERY
  The art of preparing perfumes. (more info) 1. Perfumes, in general. 2. Etym:
• FRAGRANCE; FRAGRANCY
  The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.
• INCENSE
  1. The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. A thick of incense went up. Ezek. viii. 11. 2. The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned,
• REDOLENCE; REDOLENCY
  The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
• INCENSEBREATHING; INCENSE-BREATHING
  Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.
• SMELL
  1. The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense. 2. The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor;
• AROMATOUS
  Aromatic. Caxton.
• AROMATIZER
  One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. Evelyn.
• SMELL-LESS
  Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• DEPASCENT
  Feeding.
• SUPERCRESCENT
  Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
• ASCENT
  1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
• RUFESCENT
  Reddish; tinged with red.
• COGNOSCENTE
  A conoisseur. Mason.
• CRESCENT
  The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
• TABESCENT
  Withering, or wasting away.
• ACAULESCENT
  Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.