Sweet-smelling vs Redolent - What's the difference?
sweet-smelling | redolent | Related terms |
Having a pleasant scent.
(figuratively)liked, appreciated or respected.
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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Sweet-smelling is a related term of redolent.
As adjectives the difference between sweet-smelling and redolent
is that sweet-smelling is having a pleasant scent while redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.sweet-smelling
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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.''