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”).
- derived from redolentem
- derived from redolent
- inherited from redolent
Definitions
Fragrant or aromatic
Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
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.
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.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for redolent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA