redolent

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Scrabble points
9
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Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/
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/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/ · /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/ (US) · /ˈɹed.ə.lənt/

Definition of redolent

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
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adj

  1. Fragrant or aromatic; having a sweet scent.
  2. Having the smell of the article in question.
    “Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.”
    “His breath is already redolent of whiskey.”
    “Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.”
    “At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.”
  3. (figuratively)Suggestive or reminiscent.
    “But, in the country, the green fields are so joyous, the pure air so fresh, the blue sky so clear; the fine old trees, redolent of earth's loveliest mythology, when the dryades peopled their green shadows;...”
    “But forth from sweat-shops, tenement and prison Wailed minor protests, redolent with pain.”
    “He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.”
    “The sums are so vast, the secrecy so shocking, that “chumocracy” doesn’t begin to capture what Britain has become – redolent as we are of banana republics, the Russian oligarchy and failed states.”

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Etymology

From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō (“to emit a scent”), from red- + oleō (“to smell”).

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