scented
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having a pleasant smell; fragrant: Describes something that emits or is filled with a noticeable, typically agreeable, odor.
- Having the odor or smell of a specific thing: Often used in combination to indicate the presence of a particular scent.
- Impregnated or treated with perfume: Describes something that has had a fragrance added to it.
- Having a keen sense of smell: Used to describe animals, particularly hounds, with an acute olfactory ability.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She placed scented candles around the room to create a relaxing atmosphere.
- The laundry came out clean and fresh-scented.
- The garden was filled with beautifully scented roses.
- Keen-scented dogs are essential for search and rescue operations.
Advanced Usage
- Used in combination: The adjective is frequently combined with a noun or another adjective to specify the type of smell.
- The lemon-scented cleaner left a fresh aroma in the kitchen.
- He walked through the pine-scented forest.
Variants and Related Words
- Scent (n/verb): The noun refers to a distinctive smell, especially a pleasant one. The verb means to impart a scent to or to detect by smell.
- The scent of jasmine filled the air. (n)
- The flowers scented the entire hallway. (verb)
- Scentless (adj): Having no scent; odorless.
- Some varieties of flowers are beautiful but scentless.
Synonyms
- Fragrant: Having a sweet or pleasant smell.
- Perfumed: Scented with perfume.
- Aromatic: Having a strong, pleasant smell.
- Odorous: Having a smell (can be neutral, pleasant, or unpleasant, but often used for strong smells).
Related Phrases
- Scented with: Impregnated or flavored with a particular smell.
- The soap was scented with lavender and chamomile.
Related Idioms
- To follow one's nose / To be on the scent: While not directly using "scented," this idiom relates to the noun "scent" and means to pursue a course of action based on intuition or evidence.
- The detective was on the scent of the criminal.
Adjective
- (used in combination) having the odor of
- clean-scented laundry
- a manure-scented barnyard
- having a natural fragrance
- odoriferous spices
- the odorous air of the orchard
- the perfumed air of June
- scented flowers
- filled or impregnated with perfume
- perfumed boudoir
- perfumed stationery
- scented soap
- having the sense of smell
- keen-scented hounds