Balmy vs Redolent - What's the difference?
balmy | redolent |
Producing balm.
Soothing or fragrant.
Mild and pleasant.
(informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
Having the smell of the article in question.
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(idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
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As adjectives the difference between balmy and redolent
is that balmy is producing balm while redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.balmy
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Adjective
(er)redolent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
- Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
- But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
- He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.''