Redolent vs Eponymous - What's the difference?
redolent | eponymous |
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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Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.
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)- 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.''
Synonyms
* (fragrant or aromatic) aromatic, fragrant * (having the smell of) reeking, smelling * (suggestive or reminiscent) reminiscent, suggestiveDerived terms
* redolentlyAnagrams
* ----eponymous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.