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Odoriferous vs Ambrosial - What's the difference?

odoriferous | ambrosial | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between odoriferous and ambrosial

is that odoriferous is having an odor or fragrance while ambrosial is pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

odoriferous

English

Alternative forms

* odouriferous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having an odor or fragrance.
  • *1851 , , Moby-Dick , ch. 77,
  • *:The tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

    • Synonyms

    * odorous

    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.