Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of odor; having no scent or smell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic
Odourless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no odor
Etymologies
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Examples
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A number of these sweatings and plungings having, as he supposed, rendered his person perfectly "inodorous," he resumed his trapping with renovated hope.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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A number of these sweatings and plungings having, as he supposed, rendered his person perfectly "inodorous," he resumed his trapping with renovated hope.
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A number of these sweatings and plungings having, as he supposed, rendered his person perfectly "inodorous," he resumed his trapping with renovated hope.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821
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This too, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth to the touch and taste.
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Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.
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Wherefore, that which is to receive all forms should have no form; as in making perfumes they first contrive that the liquid substance which is to receive the scent shall be as inodorous as possible; or as those who wish to impress figures on soft substances do not allow any previous impression to remain, but begin by making the surface as even and smooth as possible.
Timaeus 2006
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The containing principle may be likened to a mother, the source or spring to a father, the intermediate nature to a child; and we may also remark that the matter which receives every variety of form must be formless, like the inodorous liquids which are prepared to receive scents, or the smooth and soft materials on which figures are impressed.
Timaeus 2006
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It was inodorous, tasteless; you only knew you had it when it began to work upon you.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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There is many a shop-keeper whose sign is a very tolerable picture; and often have we stopped to admire (the reader will give us credit for having remained OUTSIDE) the excellent workmanship of the grapes and vine-leaves over the door of some very humble, dirty, inodorous shop of a marchand de vin.
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Now food must be wrought on and altered by our natural powers; in dyeing, cloth of the most simple color takes the tincture soonest; the most inodorous oil is soonest by perfumes changed into an essence; and simple diet is soonest changed, and soonest yields to the digesting power.
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