Redolent vs Ambrosial - What's the difference?
redolent | ambrosial | Related terms |
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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(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.
Redolent is a related term of ambrosial.
As adjectives the difference between redolent and ambrosial
is that redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent while ambrosial is (greek mythology) pertaining to or worthy of the gods.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.''
