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perfumed

perfumed adjective: scented, having been given a pleasant smell. Also the simple past and past participle of perfume.

Adjective

perfumed (comparative more perfumed, superlative most perfumed)

  1. Scented, having been given a pleasant smell.
    • The perfumed pages of the letter contrasted with its doleful writing.

Also used as

perfumed is also the simple past and past participle of perfume.

Forms of perfumed

comparativemore perfumed
superlativemost perfumed

Origin of perfumed

From perfume (noun and verb) + -ed.

Words formed from perfumed

Questions about perfumed

What does perfumed mean?
Perfumed means scented, having been given a pleasant smell.
What part of speech is perfumed?
Perfumed is an adjective.

Words near perfumed in the dictionary

  1. perfumatories
  2. perfumatory
  3. perfume
  4. perfume ball
  5. perfume balls
  6. perfumed
  7. perfumed cherry
  8. perfumed terms of the time
  9. perfumedness
  10. perfumeless
  11. perfumelike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perfumed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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