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redolent

Syllables: red·o·lentUK/ˈrɛdəʊlənt//ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/

redolent adjective: fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.

Adjective

redolent (comparative more redolent, superlative most redolent)

  1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
    Synonyms:
    aromatic, fragrant
  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.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 163–164
    • His breath is already redolent of whiskey.1861, Francis Colburn Adams, chapter 32, in An Outcast
    Synonyms:
    reeking, smelling
  3. (figuratively) 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;...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 213
    • But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison
      Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.1919, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A vision

redolent meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

redolent in Urdu

خوشبودار

redolent in Bengali

সুগন্ধি, স্মৃতিবহ

redolent in Malayalam

suggestive, evocative, reminiscent
സൂചനകമായ, വ്യഞ്ജിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ചിന്തിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, സ്മരണയുണർത്തുന്ന, ഉപസ്ഥാപക, ഓർമ്മിപ്പിക്കുന്ന
scented with, smelling of, fragrant with
സുഗന്ധമുള്ള, പരിമളം പരത്തുന്ന, മണം പിടിച്ച, സുഗന്ധിയായ, സുരഭിയായ, സുരഭിലമായ

redolent in Kannada

ಗಮಗಮಿಸುವ, ನೆನಪಿಸುವ, ಆಲೋಚಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡುವ, ಯೋಚನಾಪರನನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡುವ, ನೆನಪಿಗೆ ತರುವ, ಸುಗಂಧದ
More languagesFewer languages
redolent in Persian
خوشبو xošbu

Examples of redolent in a sentence

  • 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:
  • 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.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre...
  • The sums are so vast, the secrecy so shocking, that “chumocracy” doesn’t begin to capture what Britain has become – redolent as we are of banana republics, the Russian oligarchy and failed states.2021 February 22, Polly Toynbee, “The Covid contracts furore is no surprise – Britain has long been a chumocracy”, in The Guardian:

All 13 example sentences with redolent

Synonyms of redolent

Forms of redolent

comparativemore redolent
superlativemost redolent

Origin of redolent

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”).

Words formed from redolent

Questions about redolent

What does redolent mean?
Redolent means fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
What is redolent in Urdu?
Redolent in Urdu is خوشبودار. See Redolent meaning in Urdu.
How do you use redolent in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is redolent?
Redolent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce redolent?
Redolent is pronounced /ˈrɛdəʊlənt/ (UK).

Words near redolent in the dictionary

  1. redoing
  2. redolence
  3. redolences
  4. redolencies
  5. redolency
  6. redolent
  7. redolently
  8. redologist
  9. redologists
  10. redology
  11. redomesticate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redolent (page history and authors); redolent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redolent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redolent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); redolent (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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