fragrant
adjUK, US /ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt/ · /ˈfɹæ.ɡɹənt/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“to smell”).
1
Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.
- fragrant flower
- fragrant smell
2
UK Attractive.
Sometimes ironic or patronising
- party-political interventions made by the fragrant Ms Stella Rimington.1995, Christopher Hitchens, Letter to the London Review of Books, Vol. 17 No. 4, 23 February 1995:
- the fragrant Ms Lawson should rename her show 'Nigella Swallows'2001, Kathryn Flett, Uneven Stephen, television review, The Guardian:
- Antonyms
- fetid, noisome, pungent, smelly, malodorous
- Derived terms
25 terms
fragrancy, fragrant agrimony, fragrant angelica, fragrant azalea, fragrant balm, fragrant bedstraw, fragrant cliff fern, fragrant goldenrod, fragrantly, fragrant magnolia, fragrant meat, fragrantness, fragrant orchid, fragrant rosewood, fragrant shield fern, fragrant snowbell, fragrant solomon's seal, fragrant sumac, fragrant water lily, fragrant wood fern, fragrant woodsia, infragrant, nonfragrant, overfragrant, unfragrant- Hypernyms
- olfactible, pleasant
- Hyponyms
- perfumatory, perfumed, perfumelike, perfumey, scented, spicy, musky, thuriferous