smell
Meaning of smell
noun
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
- The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
- To sense a smell or smells.
I can smell fresh bread.
- Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
Her feet smell of cheese.
- (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
Ew, this stuff smells.
- To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
A report smells of calumny.
- To exercise sagacity.
- To detect or perceive; often with out.
- To give heed to.
Information about smell
- The plural form of smell is: smells.
- Languages in which smell is used:
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Hyphenation of smell
smell
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- smell is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
smell synonyms
Meaning odor:
Meaning olfactory property:
Meaning spirit:
spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, look
Meaning sense of smell:
Meaning smelling:
Meaning :
detect, sense, pong, reek, stink, whiff
Translation of smell
- German: Geruch, riechen, schüffeln
- Spanish: olor, oler
- French: odeur, sentir
- Italian: odore, sentire, odorare, annusare, puzzare, maleodorare
- Portuguese: odor, cheiro, cheirar
Anagrams of smell
Words that rhyme with smell
Mell, mell, scamell, tramell, ploughmell, pellmell, Brummell, Gemmell, Kimmell, Knmmell, coromell, intermell, vermell, besmell, outsmell, resmell, Roumell, plowmell
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