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fragrant /ˈfreɪɡr(ə)nt /adjectiveHaving a pleasant or sweet smell: she gathered the fragrant blooms...- As you walk by a fruit stand in the market the sweet, fragrant smell also indicates that the melons are ready to eat.
- The myriad of colours and the sweet, fragrant scent of the blooms overwhelmed the senses to the point of excess.
- He wished he could smell her fragrant perfume right there and then.
Synonyms sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, scented, perfumed, aromatic, sweet literary redolent rare fragranced, aromatized, perfumy Derivatives fragrantly adverb ...- The lime chicken burger with Thai coconut sauce, peppers and tomato is fragrantly sublime and the Asian potato and chickpea burger with mango raita and tomato is a vegetarian's delight.
- Other oils, which will repel insect pests, although not as fragrantly pleasant, are eucalyptus and citronella.
- It tastes immediately as if it has been buried in a sandalwood box; fragrantly woody, earthy and fascinating.
Origin Late Middle English: from French, or from Latin fragrant- 'smelling sweet', from the verb fragrare. Rhymes flagrant, vagrant |