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sweet-smelling
adjective as in aromatic
adjective as in fragrant
adjective as in odorous
Weak matches
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- olfactory
- perfumatory
- perfumed
- perfumy
- pungent
- putrid
- redolent
- reeking
- rotten
- savorous
- savory
- scent-laden
- scented
- scentful
- skunky
- smelly
- spicy
- stagnant
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- tumaceous
- unsavory
- whiffy
adjective as in redolent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in scented
Example Sentences
“This man never says anything new,” said Mahmoud Ghanim, adding a pinch of sweet-smelling tobacco to his water pipe.
He was clean-shaven, sweet-smelling, and dressed to the nines.
In the Bible story of Samson and Delilah, Samson wooed and won his lady with sweet-smelling almond branches.
To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country?
At night it gives him a soft, sweet-smelling bed on which to sleep, and it shields him from the storm.
On spontaneous evaporation of the solution, a yellow, sweet smelling resin was left.
It was a fine day, and the woods to which I led him were green and pleasant and sweet-smelling, and alive with the hum of insects.
Suddenly his whole heart seemed to irradiate light and color and music and sweet smelling things.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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