odorous, malodorous

odorous, malodorous
Odorous means "having, yielding, or diffusing an odor" (that property of something which affects the sense of smell). Odorous usually implies a fragrant or pleasant smell; the word odor normally refers to a bad or unpleasant smell or scent: "The air was odorous with the fragrance of lilies." "A rank odor drifted from the laboratory." Words related to odorous are redolent, fragrant, aromatic, odoriferous, and perfumed. Malodorous is formed from odorous and the Latin prefix mal-, meaning "ill" or "bad": "The malodorous skunk is not a welcome visitor." "The scent coming from this dank swamp is malodorous."

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  • malodorous — See odorous. See odorous, malodorous …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • odorous — See odorous, malodorous …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • odorous — odorous, fragrant, redolent, aromatic, balmy mean emitting and diffusing scent. Odorous applies to whatever has a strong, distinctive smell, whether it is pleasant or not {odorous flowers such as lilies, tuberoses, and narcissuses} {odorous… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • malodorous — malodorous, stinking, fetid, noisome, putrid, rank, rancid, fusty, musty mean having an unpleasant smell. Malodorous is the general term which is referable to any smell of this character, from one that is noticeably unpleasant to one that is… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • malodorous — (adj.) 1832, from MAL (Cf. mal ) bad + ODOROUS (Cf. odorous). Related: Malodorously; malodorousness …   Etymology dictionary

  • odorous — [adj] having fragrance aromatic, balmy, dank, effluvious, fetid, flavorsome, flowery, foul, fragrant, heady, honeyed, loud, malodorous, mephitic, miasmic, moldy, musty, nauseous, odoriferant, odoriferous, offensive, olfactive, olfactory,… …   New thesaurus

  • odorous — adjective Date: 15th century having an odor: as a. fragrant b. malodorous • odorously adverb • odorousness noun Synonyms: odorous, fragrant, redolent, aromatic mean emitting and diffusing scent. odorous applies …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • malodorous — malodorously, adv. malodorousness, n. /mal oh deuhr euhs/, adj. having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp. [1840 50; MAL + ODOROUS] * * * …   Universalium

  • malodorous — Synonyms and related words: abhorrent, abominable, aromatic, bad, bad smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crappy, crude, decayed, decomposed, despicable, detestable, disgusting, effluvious, execrable,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • odorous — Synonyms and related words: ambrosial, aromatic, bad, bad smelling, balmy, effluvious, essenced, fecal, fetid, flowery, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fruity, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, heady, high, ill smelling, incense… …   Moby Thesaurus

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