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Odorous vs Ambrosial - What's the difference?

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Odorous is a related term of ambrosial.


As adjectives the difference between odorous and ambrosial

is that odorous is having a distinctive odor while ambrosial is (greek mythology) pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

odorous

English

Alternative forms

* odourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a distinctive odor.
    • The table was piled with odorous lilies.

    Synonyms

    * odoriferous

    ambrosial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour'd like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...].
  • Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.