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单词 odorous
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Definition of odorous in English:

odorous

adjective ˈəʊd(ə)rəsˈoʊdərəs
  • Having or giving off an odour.

    有气味的,散发气味的

    a dark and odorous cave
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
    • I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
    • So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
    • I did not go to the loo once - I drank only a litre of water, when I got home my pee was dark brown and odorous.
    • And where would they keep the odorous billy-goat until he was needed for the next session?
    • Should the turkey spray you with an odorous substance after you kill it, you didn't kill a turkey.
    • It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
    • According to the manufacturer, newater is clearer, less odorous and less bacterial than the water people get from the Public Utilities Board.
    • In one such pathway, binding of odorous molecules to their receptors activates G olf, a GTP-binding protein.
    • But there are other companies in the area dealing with odorous products.
    • They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
    • ‘Comparisons’, one of Shakespeare's finest word-muddlers tell us, ‘are odorous.’
    • The afternoon we went there it was at its hottest and most odorous.
    • It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, smelly, stinking, reeking, reeky, malodorous, pungent, acrid, fetid, rank
    informal stinky
    British informal pongy, whiffy, niffy, niffing
    North American informal funky
    literary noisome, mephitic
    rare olid, odoriferous, miasmal, miasmic
    fragrant, scented, perfumed, aromatic, balmy, tangy, redolent

Derivatives

  • odorously

  • adverbˈəʊd(ə)rəsli
    • We selected ethylbenzene and 2-butanone for exposure because ethylbenzene is more odorously effective than 2-butanone.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With all its wishy-washy platitudes and sweeping generalizations, there was a general theme wafting odorously from the ill-conceived ballot.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin odorus 'fragrant' (from odor 'odour') + -ous.

Rhymes

malodorous

Definition of odorous in US English:

odorous

adjectiveˈoʊdərəsˈōdərəs
  • Having or giving off a smell.

    有气味的,散发气味的

    a dark and odorous cave
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was a Naples of the north, ‘a picturesque, odorous, inconvenient, old - fashioned town’.
    • The afternoon we went there it was at its hottest and most odorous.
    • But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
    • So you can imagine my surprise when I open the door to find two odorous men, half-heartedly mumbling that they're here to ‘move me’.
    • In one such pathway, binding of odorous molecules to their receptors activates G olf, a GTP-binding protein.
    • But there are other companies in the area dealing with odorous products.
    • I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
    • It's worth the odorous torture because the need to travel runs through your veins.
    • According to the manufacturer, newater is clearer, less odorous and less bacterial than the water people get from the Public Utilities Board.
    • They spend most of the year cramped in dark, often odorous conditions, carrying the full weight of our bodies.
    • And where would they keep the odorous billy-goat until he was needed for the next session?
    • ‘Comparisons’, one of Shakespeare's finest word-muddlers tell us, ‘are odorous.’
    • I did not go to the loo once - I drank only a litre of water, when I got home my pee was dark brown and odorous.
    • Should the turkey spray you with an odorous substance after you kill it, you didn't kill a turkey.
    Synonyms
    foul-smelling, evil-smelling, smelly, stinking, reeking, reeky, malodorous, pungent, acrid, fetid, rank
    fragrant, scented, perfumed, aromatic, balmy, tangy, redolent

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin odorus ‘fragrant’ (from odor ‘odor’) + -ous.

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