REDOLENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redolent mean? 

• REDOLENT (adjective)
  The adjective REDOLENT has 3 senses:

1. serving to bring to mind

2. (used with 'of' or 'with') noticeably odorous

3. having a strong pleasant odor

  Familiarity information: REDOLENT used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDOLENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to bring to mind

Synonyms:

evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant

Context example:

a campaign redolent of machine politics

Similar:

aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used with 'of' or 'with') noticeably odorous

Synonyms:

redolent; smelling

Context example:

air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey

Similar:

odorous (having odor or a characteristic odor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a strong pleasant odor

Synonyms:

aromatic; redolent

Context example:

the pine woods were more redolent

Similar:

fragrant (pleasant-smelling)

Derivation:

redolence (a pleasingly sweet olfactory property)

 Context examples 

The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)