FRAGRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fragrant mean? 

• FRAGRANT (adjective)
  The adjective FRAGRANT has 1 sense:

1. pleasant-smelling

  Familiarity information: FRAGRANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAGRANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasant-smelling

Similar:

aromatic; redolent (having a strong pleasant odor)

odoriferous; odorous; perfumed; scented; sweet; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling (having a natural fragrance)

perfumed; scented (filled or impregnated with perfume)

musky (resembling the smell of musk)

Antonym:

malodorous (having an unpleasant smell)

Derivation:

fragrance (a pleasingly sweet olfactory property)

fragrance (a distinctive odor that is pleasant)

 Context examples 

No one could resist her persuasive nods, or the fragrant invitation issuing from the nose of the coffee pot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The use of fragrant essences or extracts from plants to treat a variety of health conditions and support and balance the mind, body, and spirit.

(Aromatherapy and Essential Oils, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of evergreen tree with hard fragrant wood that is a member of the cypress family.

(Cedarwood, NCI Dictionary)

I was not surprised, when I ran down into the hall, to see that a brilliant June morning had succeeded to the tempest of the night; and to feel, through the open glass door, the breathing of a fresh and fragrant breeze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beth had old-fashioned fragrant flowers in her garden, sweet peas and mignonette, larkspur, pinks, pansies, and southernwood, with chickweed for the birds and catnip for the pussies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They crimped and curled her hair, they polished her neck and arms with some fragrant powder, touched her lips with coralline salve to make them redder, and Hortense would have added 'a soupcon of rouge', if Meg had not rebelled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

How fragrant was the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast! of which, however, I, to my dismay (for I was beginning to be hungry) discerned only a very small portion: Miss Temple discerned it too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)