Having a pleasant odor.
[Middle English, from Latin frāgrāns, frāgrant-, past participle of frāgrāre, to emit an odor.]
fragrantly fra'grant·ly adv.
fragrant
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fra·grant (frā'grənt)  |
adj.
Having a pleasant odor.
Having a pleasant odor.
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adj
Definition: smelling nice
Antonyms: noxious, putrid, stale, stinking
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IN BRIEF: Having a sweet and pleasant smell.
The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.
— Louise Beebe Wilder.
Tutor's tip: A "fragrant" (sweet-smelling) summer night was spoiled by the "flagrant" (notorious, outrageous, glaringly bad) foul made in the neighborhood ballgame.
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The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
pleasant-smelling
Antonym: malodorous (meaning #1)
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