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fragrant

Something that is fragrant has a nice smell. What makes a smell nice is subjective, or course. You might find bowl of dried lavender to be fragrant, but your dog might prefer a pile of horse poop.

Fragrant things emit good smells, like flowers, trees, or cooking. Maybe you find fresh cut grass fragrant, or the smell of summer rain on asphalt. When a smell gets too intense, however, it loses its fragrancy. Someone doused in cologne has bypassed fragrancy for noxiousness. But he’s right on one count: the people we are attracted to are almost always fragrant to us.

DEFINITIONS OF: fragrant

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adj pleasant-smelling

Synonyms
aromatic, redolent
having a strong pleasant odor
odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling
having a natural fragrance
perfumed, scented
filled or impregnated with perfume
musky
resembling the smell of musk
Antonyms:
ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling
having an unpleasant smell
bilgy
smelling like bilge water
fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking
offensively malodorous
frowsty, fusty, musty
stale and unclean smelling
gamey, gamy, high
(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
mephitic, miasmic
of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
niffy
(British informal) malodorous
odoriferous, odorous
emitting an odor
putrid-smelling
having the putrid odor of decaying organic matter
rank-smelling
having an offensive rancid odor
reeking
giving off a strong unpleasant smell
rancid, sour
smelling of fermentation or staleness
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