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Redolent vs Eponymous - What's the difference?

redolent | eponymous |

As adjectives the difference between redolent and eponymous

is that redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent while eponymous is of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.

redolent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
  • Having the smell of the article in question.
  • * 1861 , , ch. 32:
  • His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
  • * , Episode 16:
  • 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.
  • (idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
  • * 1919 , :
  • But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
    Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
  • * 1926 , :
  • 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.''

    Synonyms

    * (fragrant or aromatic) aromatic, fragrant * (having the smell of) reeking, smelling * (suggestive or reminiscent) reminiscent, suggestive

    Derived terms

    * redolently

    Anagrams

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    eponymous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.
  • Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book.
    Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.
    The language Limburgish is named after the eponymous provinces in Belgium and the Netherlands.