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sweet scented

sweet scented is the alternative form of sweet-scented.

Meaning of sweet-scented

Adjective

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

  1. Synonym of sweet-smelling.
    • She spent there only two months, but that was enough for her to fail in love with this sunny and colorful island. Its "salmon-red cliffs, its "sweetest-scented hillsides in the world," its Genoese citadels and fortresses towering out of rock, literally conquered her heart.1926 August 15, Alexander I. Nazaroff, “Corsica Is Off the Beaten Track of Tourists […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
    Synonyms:
    sweet-smelling

Forms of sweet scented

comparativemore sweet scented
comparativesweeter scented
superlativemost sweet scented
superlativesweetest scented

Questions about sweet scented

What is sweet scented the alternative form of?
Sweet scented is the alternative form of sweet-scented.

Words near sweet scented in the dictionary

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  4. sweet savagery
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  9. sweet seventeens
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