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SWEET-SMELLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet-smelling mean?
• SWEET-SMELLING (adjective)
The adjective SWEET-SMELLING has 1 sense:
1. having a natural fragrance
Familiarity information: SWEET-SMELLING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a natural fragrance
Synonyms:
odoriferous; odorous; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling
Context example:
scented flowers
Similar:
fragrant (pleasant-smelling)
Context examples
I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And now I see the outside of our house, with the latticed bedroom-windows standing open to let in the sweet-smelling air, and the ragged old rooks'-nests still dangling in the elm-trees at the bottom of the front garden.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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