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Remindful vs Redolent - What's the difference?

remindful | redolent |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.
  • 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

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