Word Meanings - ODOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute. (more info) odor; akin to olere to

Additional info about word: ODOR

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute. (more info) odor; akin to olere to smell, Gr. Olfactory, Osmium, Ozone,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ODOR)

• Flavor
• Taste
• savor
• smack
• odor
• relish
• zest
• Perfume
• Odor
• scent
• fragrance
• redolence
• aroma
• smell
• incense
• Redolence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ODOR)

• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to ODOR)

• 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.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• 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.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• 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.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• SMACK
  A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• INCENSE
  1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
• SCENTINGLY
  By scent. Fuller.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• 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.