Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a distinctive odor: odorous jasmine flowers; odorous garbage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or emitting an odor; sweet of scent; fragrant: as, odorous substances.
- Synonyms Balmy, aromatic, perfumed, sweet-scented, odoriferous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a distinctive odor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a natural fragrance
- adj. emitting an odor
- adj. having odor or a characteristic odor
Etymologies
- odor + -ous (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed.”
“Although the project could be described as odorous, Gothenburg will probably take money to help pay for it.”
“The floor of the cage was slippery with a kind of odorous slime.”
“Recovering himself, and seeing an "odorous" name in the future, he attempted apology and reparation for the insult, and complete reconciliation.”
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
“Comparisons are "odorous," we know, as the learned Dogberry hath said; but the writer means nothing unkind by these remarks.”
“They are dubbed 'odorous' and 'coconut' due to the coconut - or rum-like smell they release when crushed.”
“County Legislator Wally Huckno, D-Jamestown, called Mueller's proposal '' odorous '' and”
“The apartment was the upstairs of a shabby... all right, rundown house located across the street from an extremely odorous dairy.”
““Just a moment,” said Mr Howle, burping perfume of odorous vodka.”
“It has been reported that drywall imported between 2004-2006 from certain areas in China, can release sulfur-like odorous components.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘odorous’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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odorific
smelling words
odoriferous, malodorous, heavenly, redolent, putrid, delectable, stagnant, fragrant, smelly, noisome, noxious, fetid and 47 more...
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GRE 3500 O
oblivion, oblivious, obstetrician, obstinate, obstreperous, outlandish, outmoded, obtrude, obtuse, obviate, odious, odorous and 52 more...
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O
letters starting with O
oaf, obdurate, obeisance, obelisk, obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate, obituary, obituary, objective, obligatory, oblique and 39 more...
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Smelly
Words that mean smelly
mephitic, odoriferous, odiferous, fetid, noisome, odorous, malodorous, olid
Tweets
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bilby
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I am looking up at the stars,
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman, 'Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun'. Nov 17, 2008
mialuthien Bzuh? is inseparable from its question mark. It saddens me that whenever I try to list it, Wordie goes all 500 Application Error on me. Oh, well. Jul 25, 2008
chained_bear Right. Ours is but to list or die.
Why did you not add bzuh? That's teh alsome. Jul 25, 2008
yarb Weirdnet is capricious, Mia. Ours is not to reason why. Jul 25, 2008
dontcry (psst, mia: "did they really HAVE to list...") :-) Jul 25, 2008
dontcry I prefer "smelling of rain on warm hay..." Eh? Jul 25, 2008
mialuthien Wow. Did they really have to list all those smells? They forgot to include hundreds of thousands of others. Why is "smelling of tansy" more important than, say, "smelling of rain on warm asphalt"? Bzuh?
Edited. Thanks, Dontcry! :) Jul 25, 2008
dontcry We say "odiforous" in our house. Usually after someone has just come from the barn, or cleaned out from under the bed (monsters are stinky), or taken off their baseball shirt, or cut the cheese, or....
NOW do you understand my fondness for The Porch? Join me, won't you? Jul 25, 2008
yarb I especially like the inclusion of tansy and balsam resin. Jul 25, 2008
whichbe The Weirdnet entry here is rather peculiar. Jul 25, 2008