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Scented vs Redolent - What's the difference?

scented | redolent |

As adjectives the difference between scented and redolent

is that scented is having a pleasant aroma while redolent is fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

As a verb scented

is past tense of scent.

scented

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a pleasant aroma.
  • (mostly, in combination) Having a smell of any kind.
  • a plant with skunk-scented leaves
  • Having perfume added.
  • a scented soap

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scent)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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

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