Word Meanings - ODOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ODOROUS)

• Fragrant
• Odorous
• scented
• perfumed
• balmy
• sweet-smelling
• aromatic
• sweet-scented
• odoriferous
• spicy

Related words: (words related to ODOROUS)

• 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.
• BALMY
  1. Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young. 2. Producing balm. "The balmy tree." Pope. Syn. -- Fragrant;
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• PERFUMER
  1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
• SCENTINGLY
  By scent. Fuller.
• PERFUMERY
  The art of preparing perfumes. (more info) 1. Perfumes, in general. 2. Etym:
• ODORIFEROUS
  Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes. Milton. -- O`dor*if"er*ous*ly, adv. --O`dor*if"er*ous*ness, n.
• SCENT
  1. To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak. 2. To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume. Balm from a silver box distilled around, Shall all bedew the roots, and scent
• PERFUMATORY
  Emitting perfume; perfuming. Sir E. Leigh.
• PERFUME
  To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.
• ODOROUS
  Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.
• SWEET-SCENTED
  Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. Sweet-scented shrub , a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries.
• AROMATIC; AROMATICAL
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong- scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam. Aromatic compound , one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams,
• SCENTLESS
  Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.
• SPICY
  1. Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes. "The spicy nut-brown ale." Milton. Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales. Pope. 2. Producing, or abounding with, spices. In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew.
• AROMATIC
  A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.
• 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.
• CANESCENT
  Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.