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sweet-smelling

sweet-smelling adjective: having a pleasant scent.

Adjective

sweet-smelling (comparative more sweet-smelling or sweeter-smelling, superlative most sweet-smelling or sweetest-smelling)

  1. Having a pleasant scent.
    • It was always rather refreshing to find oneself among the sweet-smelling timber and the more peaceful atmosphere of a wood-working place, on a day-work and not piece-work basis.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341
    • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which tried and failed to market a smokeless cigarette in the late 1980s, announced plans for a sweeter-smelling cigarette Monday.1994 October 11, Times Wire Services, “R.J. Reynolds to Introduce Less-Smelly Cigarette […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  2. (figuratively) Liked, appreciated or respected.

sweet-smelling meaning in Gujarati

sweet-smelling in Gujarati

sweet-smelling
સુગંધીદાર sugandhīdār

Synonyms of sweet-smelling

Forms of sweet-smelling

comparativemore sweet-smelling
comparativesweeter-smelling
superlativemost sweet-smelling
superlativesweetest-smelling
alternative formsweet smelling
alternative formsweetsmelling

Questions about sweet-smelling

What does sweet-smelling mean?
Sweet-smelling means having a pleasant scent.
What is sweet-smelling in Gujarati?
Sweet-smelling in Gujarati is સુગંધીદાર (sugandhīdār). See Sweet-smelling meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is sweet-smelling?
Sweet-smelling is an adjective.

Words near sweet-smelling in the dictionary

  1. sweet-natured
  2. sweet-potatoey
  3. sweet-scented
  4. sweet-scented joe-pye weed
  5. sweet-shop
  6. sweet-smelling
  7. sweet-sop
  8. sweet-sops
  9. sweet-spoken
  10. sweet-stuff
  11. sweet-talk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet-smelling (page history and authors); સુગંધીદાર (Gujarati) (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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