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sweetsmelling

sweetsmelling is the alternative spelling 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 sweetsmelling

comparativemore sweetsmelling
superlativemost sweetsmelling

Questions about sweetsmelling

What is sweetsmelling the alternative spelling of?
Sweetsmelling is the alternative spelling of sweet-smelling.

Words near sweetsmelling in the dictionary

  1. Sweetsers
  2. sweetshop
  3. sweetshops
  4. sweetshrub
  5. sweetshrubs
  6. sweetsmelling
  7. sweetsome
  8. sweetsop
  9. sweetsops
  10. sweetspire
  11. sweetspires

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