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Sweet-smelling vs Ambrosial - What's the difference?

sweet-smelling | ambrosial | Related terms |

Sweet-smelling is a related term of ambrosial.


As adjectives the difference between sweet-smelling and ambrosial

is that sweet-smelling is having a pleasant scent while ambrosial is (greek mythology) pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

sweet-smelling

English

Adjective

  • Having a pleasant scent.
  • (figuratively)liked, appreciated or respected.

    • 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.