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adjective

having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.

delightful; pleasant: fragrant memories.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin frāgrant- (stem of frāgrāns), present participle of frāgrāre to smell sweet

Related forms

fra·grant·ly, adverb

fra·grant·ness, noun

non·fra·grant, adjective

un·fra·grant, adjective

un·fra·grant·ly, adverb

Can be confused: flagrant, fragrant.

Synonyms
1. perfumed, odorous, redolent, aromatic.

Antonyms
1. malodorous, noisome.

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It is a bit less fragrant and the flavor is a bit more pungent than that of imported varieties.

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What was usually rolling sand dunes with sparse, dry vegetation had been transformed into a carpet of incredibly fragrant flowers.

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It is a bit less fragrant and the flavor is a bit more pungent than that of imported varieties.

How those memories come back these days, with fund managers touting as never before the fragrant charms of fast-growing foreign.

What was usually rolling sand dunes with sparse, dry vegetation had been transformed into a carpet of incredibly fragrant flowers.

Human waste includes some fascinating and fragrant organic compounds.

It's curvy, fragrant and quick to build-and fringed with all the right plants.

It's so fragrant and chewy that it begs for an accompanying cup of tea.

The gallery seems fragrant with cigarette smoke, cheap perfume and fried chicken.

Dripping saliva, she chewed a branch coated with the fragrant paste.

But the secret is finding the right fragrant white wine that will complement the type of.

The authentic version of this sweet, fragrant bean salad requires about three times as much olive oil.

Fran learned to wash her underwear in fragrant suds, and thus to hold on to the man of her dreams.

We see only a few quick birds, as well as some fragrant shrubs sheltered by gleaming white chunks of granite.

M ost honeysuckles are valued for their clustered or paired, often fragrant flowers.

In private, elegant women have their bodies painted with a fragrant black dye made.

Slices of the sweetest onion came with ponzu, a citrus sauce made from yuzu, whose peel is as fragrant as its flesh is bitter.

It recently opened a copper distillery where delicately fragrant vodka is made from distilled cider.

Prized for fragrant lavender or purple flowers, often set off by colorful bracts.

Rich, dark brown fragrant broth absorbs the light and gleams with promise.

Far less well known than the fragrant flower leis are the exquisite feather leis.

Clusters of fragrant purple blooms on trailing plant.

Add the garlic, and stir together for another minute, until the garlic begins to smell fragrant.

The boats come out of the oven fragrant and bubbling, their rims blistered to golden perfection.

Many cymbidiums bloom in summer and fall, and some are fragrant.

These bite-size bars have the perfect balance of fragrant almonds and bitter.

On a private terrace framed by trellises full of fragrant jasmines are chairs and a table.

G rown for white or cream-colored, usually fragrant flowers that bloom in late spring or early summer.

The beans should be thoroughly tender and the broth thick and fragrant.

Head west and south for crystalline blue bays, tranquil coves, and white pebble and sandy shores bordered by fragrant pines.

Puffy balls of yellow, fragrant flowers in spring add to my plant list.

Add sliced garlic and remaining parsley and swirl over low heat until fragrant.

Sake is brewed in many styles, ranging from light and fragrant to smoky and full bodied.

Cook, stirring often, until the zucchini is tender and translucent and the tomatoes have cooked down to a fragrant sauce.

It was also made into fragrant skin powder, and used for powdering wigs.

Add the garlic, and stir together for another minute, until the garlic is fragrant.

Old-fashioned favorites,with narrow gray-green leaves and profuse, erect spikes of fragrant flowers.

Season to taste with salt and pepper, and stir for about two minutes until fragrant and well amalgamated.

D iverse group of plants grown for big clusters of showy, brightly colored flowers that are fragrant in some species.

The tree itself is a subtropical evergreen with tender leaves and an intoxicatingly fragrant flower.

Clusters of fragrant white flowers with a purplish pink blush appear in late winter.

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World English Dictionary

fragrant (ˈfreɪɡrənt)

—*adj*
	having a pleasant or sweet smell

[C15: from Latin frāgrāns, from frāgrāre to emit a smell]

'fragrantly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

fragrant

c.1500, from L. fragrantem (nom. fragrans) "sweet-smelling," prp. of fragrare "emit (a sweet) odor," cognate with M.H.G. bræhen "to smell," M.Du. bracke, O.H.G. braccho "hound, setter" (see brach).

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