What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Odorous vs Redolent - What's the difference?

odorous | redolent | Related terms |

Odorous is a related term of redolent.


As adjectives the difference between odorous and redolent

is that odorous is having a distinctive odor while redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

odorous

English

Alternative forms

* odourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a distinctive odor.
  • The table was piled with odorous lilies.

    Synonyms

    * odoriferous

    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

    * ----