redolent

adj
/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/UK/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/US/ˈɹed.ə.lənt/

Etymology

From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō (“to emit a scent”), from red- + oleō (“to smell”).

  1. derived from redolentem
  2. derived from redolent
  3. inherited from redolent

Definitions

  1. Fragrant or aromatic

    Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

  2. Having the smell of the article in question.

    • Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.
    • His breath is already redolent of whiskey.
    • Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.
  3. Suggestive or reminiscent.

    • But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...
    • But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.
    • He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

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Derived

redolently

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA