Synonyms for fragrant
ˈfreɪ grəntfra·grant

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1. fragrant

   Synonyms:
   odorous, scented, perfumed, balmy, sweet-smelling, aromatic, sweet-scented, odoriferous, spicy

   Antonyms:
   inodorous, scentless, fetid

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1. fragrantadjective

   pleasant-smelling

   Antonyms:
   high, odorous, mephitic, foul-smelling, smelly, malodourous, foul, fusty, noisome, niffy, musty, stinking, rancid, odoriferous, gamy, frowsty, ill-scented, funky, ill-smelling, fetid, bilgy, unpleasant-smelling, putrid-smelling, malodorous, stinky, foetid, gamey, reeking, rank-smelling, sour, miasmic

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1. fragrantadjective

   Synonyms:
   aromatic, redolent, balmy, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented

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1. fragrantadjective

   Synonyms:
   sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy, sweet-scented

   Antonyms:
   inodorous, scentless, fetid

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1. List of paraphrases for "fragrant":

   incense, scented, heung, hsiang, aromatic, fragrance, huong

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How to use fragrant in a sentence?

1. Sir Francis Bacon:

   Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

2. Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity:

   Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

3. Jean Paul Richter:

   Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

4. Giacomo Puccini:

   How the stars shone. How sweet the earth smelled. The orchard gate creaked, and a footstep pressed on the sand. And she entered, fragrant as a flower, and fell into my arms. Oh, sweet kisses, lingering caresses. Slowly, trembling, I gazed upon her beauty. Now my dream of true love is lost forever. My last hour has flown, and I die, hopeless, and never have I loved life more.”

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.