Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no sense of smell; not olfactive.
  • Having no smell or odor; scentless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of smell; having no odor.

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Examples

  • The Marine medic then said that nerve gas is tasteless, smell-less and invisible.

    George Gilder Is On A Ken Fisher Kick George Gilder 2006

  • -- For very small stationary boilers the methylated spirit lamp is best suited, as it is smell-less, and safe if the reservoir be kept well apart from the burner and the supply is controllable by a tap or valve.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

  • Mr. Demarest, it appears, could not bear the wonderful new varieties of huge, smell-less blooms.

    Balloons Elizabeth Bibesco 1921

  • It is different at different times -- sometimes inspiringly sweet as the incense of heaven, as my metaphoric friend Gourdain would say -- sometimes as deadly sweet as the odors of the drugs men take to drag them to hell -- sometimes repulsively sweet, making one heart sick for pure, clean smell-less air yet without the courage to seek it.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

  • It is different at different times -- sometimes inspiringly sweet as the incense of heaven, as my metaphoric friend Gourdain would say -- sometimes as deadly sweet as the odors of the drugs men take to drag them to hell -- sometimes repulsively sweet, making one heart sick for pure, clean smell-less air yet without the courage to seek it.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

  • And the big winner is Diane Thomas who not only has 13 cats, but has, Angelic, a regular Unleashed reader, vouching for the spotless (and smell-less) state of her home.

    Blog updates 2009

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