redolent
/ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the smell of the article in question.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛd.ə.lənt/
- British English: /ˈrɛdəʊlənt/
Inflected Forms
more redolent (comparative)
most redolent (superlative)