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Definition of odorous in English: odorousadjective ˈəʊd(ə)rəsˈoʊdərəs Having or giving off an odour. Example sentencesExamples - But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
- I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
- So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
- I did not go to the loo once - I drank only a litre of water, when I got home my pee was dark brown and odorous.
- And where would they keep the odorous billy-goat until he was needed for the next session?
- Should the turkey spray you with an odorous substance after you kill it, you didn't kill a turkey.
- It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
- According to the manufacturer, newater is clearer, less odorous and less bacterial than the water people get from the Public Utilities Board.
- In one such pathway, binding of odorous molecules to their receptors activates G olf, a GTP-binding protein.
- But there are other companies in the area dealing with odorous products.
- They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
- ‘Comparisons’, one of Shakespeare's finest word-muddlers tell us, ‘are odorous.’
- The afternoon we went there it was at its hottest and most odorous.
- It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins.
Synonyms foul-smelling, evil-smelling, smelly, stinking, reeking, reeky, malodorous, pungent, acrid, fetid, rank informal stinky British informal pongy, whiffy, niffy, niffing North American informal funky literary noisome, mephitic rare olid, odoriferous, miasmal, miasmic fragrant, scented, perfumed, aromatic, balmy, tangy, redolent
Derivatives adverbˈəʊd(ə)rəsli We selected ethylbenzene and 2-butanone for exposure because ethylbenzene is more odorously effective than 2-butanone. Example sentencesExamples - With all its wishy-washy platitudes and sweeping generalizations, there was a general theme wafting odorously from the ill-conceived ballot.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin odorus 'fragrant' (from odor 'odour') + -ous. Definition of odorous in US English: odorousadjectiveˈoʊdərəsˈōdərəs Having or giving off a smell. Example sentencesExamples - It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
- The afternoon we went there it was at its hottest and most odorous.
- But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
- So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
- In one such pathway, binding of odorous molecules to their receptors activates G olf, a GTP-binding protein.
- But there are other companies in the area dealing with odorous products.
- I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
- It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins.
- According to the manufacturer, newater is clearer, less odorous and less bacterial than the water people get from the Public Utilities Board.
- They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
- And where would they keep the odorous billy-goat until he was needed for the next session?
- ‘Comparisons’, one of Shakespeare's finest word-muddlers tell us, ‘are odorous.’
- I did not go to the loo once - I drank only a litre of water, when I got home my pee was dark brown and odorous.
- Should the turkey spray you with an odorous substance after you kill it, you didn't kill a turkey.
Synonyms foul-smelling, evil-smelling, smelly, stinking, reeking, reeky, malodorous, pungent, acrid, fetid, rank fragrant, scented, perfumed, aromatic, balmy, tangy, redolent
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin odorus ‘fragrant’ (from odor ‘odor’) + -ous. |