fragrant
/ˈfreɪɡr(ə)nt
/adjective
Having a pleasant or sweet smell: she gathered the fragrant blooms...
- As you walk by a fruit stand in the market the sweet, fragrant smell also indicates that the melons are ready to eat.
- The myriad of colours and the sweet, fragrant scent of the blooms overwhelmed the senses to the point of excess.
- He wished he could smell her fragrant perfume right there and then.
Synonyms
sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, scented, perfumed, aromatic, sweet
literary redolent
rare fragranced, aromatized, perfumy
Derivatives
fragrantly
- The lime chicken burger with Thai coconut sauce, peppers and tomato is fragrantly sublime and the Asian potato and chickpea burger with mango raita and tomato is a vegetarian's delight.
- Other oils, which will repel insect pests, although not as fragrantly pleasant, are eucalyptus and citronella.
- It tastes immediately as if it has been buried in a sandalwood box; fragrantly woody, earthy and fascinating.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French, or from Latin fragrant- 'smelling sweet', from the verb fragrare.