| 单词 | fragrant |
| 释义 | fragrant (once / 367 pages) adj Something that is fragrant has a nice smell. What makes a smell nice is subjective, or course. You might find bowl of dried lavender to be fragrant, but your dog might prefer a pile of horse poop. Fragrant things emit good smells, like flowers, trees, or cooking. Maybe you find fresh cut grass fragrant, or the smell of summer rain on asphalt. When a smell gets too intense, however, it loses its fragrancy. Someone doused in cologne has bypassed fragrancy for noxiousness. But he’s right on one count: the people we are attracted to are almost always fragrant to us. WORD FAMILYfragrant: fragrance, fragrancy, fragrantly+/fragrance: fragrances/fragrancy: fragrancies USAGE EXAMPLESOlalia’s chicken and rice bowl is fragrant and soothing, spiked with chile leaves, ginger, garlic and fish sauce. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Yours may drip like a spaniel’s, too, but every bite of that tender, fragrant pork was worth it. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Spread the pistachios on a small baking sheet and toast for 7 to 8 minutes, until fragrant. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) adj pleasant-smelling Syn|Ant aromatic, redolent having a strong pleasant odor odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smellinghaving a natural fragrance perfumed, scentedfilled or impregnated with perfume muskyresembling the smell of musk ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling having an unpleasant smell bilgysmelling like bilge water fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinkingoffensively malodorous frowsty, fusty, mustystale and unclean smelling gamey, gamy, high(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted mephitic, miasmicof noxious stench from atmospheric pollution niffy(British informal) malodorous odoriferous, odorousemitting an odor putrid-smellinghaving the putrid odor of decaying organic matter rank-smellinghaving an offensive rancid odor reekinggiving off a strong unpleasant smell rancid, soursmelling of fermentation or staleness |
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