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sweet smelling

sweet smelling is the alternative form of sweet-smelling.

Meaning of sweet-smelling

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
  2. (figuratively) Liked, appreciated or respected.

Forms of sweet smelling

comparativemore sweet smelling
comparativesweeter smelling
superlativemost sweet smelling
superlativesweetest smelling

Questions about sweet smelling

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

Words near sweet smelling in the dictionary

  1. sweet shops
  2. sweet shrimp
  3. sweet sixteen
  4. sweet sixteens
  5. sweet smell of success
  6. sweet smelling
  7. sweet sorghum
  8. sweet sorghums
  9. sweet spirits of nitre
  10. sweet spot
  11. sweet spots

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