Remindful vs Redolent - What's the difference?
remindful | redolent |
That serves to remind one of something; reminiscent.
*1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 181:
*:He dashed downstairs – the speed of his descent causing the heat of the banisters to burn the palm of his hand in a merry way remindful of similar occasions in his boyhood.
Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
Having the smell of the article in question.
* 1861 , , ch. 32:
* , Episode 16:
(idiomatic) Suggestive or reminiscent.
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As adjectives the difference between remindful and redolent
is that remindful is that serves to remind one of something; reminiscent while redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.remindful
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Adjective
(en adjective)redolent
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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.''