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View synonyms for sweet-scented

sweet-scented

[ sweet-sen-tid ]

adjective

  1. having a pleasant and sweet smell; fragrant.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet-scented1

First recorded in 1585–95

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Example Sentences

Silent like a cloud, the group moves onward—a sweet-scented apparition from fairyland.

A gentle breeze wafted the sweet scented odors from the flower-decked fields, with their carpets of green.

It has two oblong shining leaves, with a scape four or five inches high strung with sweet-scented, pink-purple flowers.

A pupil disputed with his teacher about the hepatica, claiming in opposition that it was sweet-scented.

Darwin says a considerably larger proportion of white flowers are sweet-scented than of any other color.

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