Synonyms for smelling
smelling

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1. smell, smellingadjective

   the act of perceiving the odor of something

   Synonyms:
   smell, olfactory sensation, olfactory property, flavour, feel, feeling, flavor, look, olfaction, spirit, sense of smell, aroma, odour, scent, tone, odor, olfactory modality, olfactory perception

   Antonyms:
   odourless, inodorous, odorless

2. redolent(p), smelling(p)adjective

   (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous

   "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey"

   Antonyms:
   odourless, odorless, inodorous

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1. smellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   olfaction, osmesis (Med.)

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1. Shigeyuki Asano:

   I'm most grateful to the rescuers, i feel so relieved that I am now liberated from such a bad-smelling, dark place.

2. Jean Paul Richter:

   Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

3. New York:

   Maybe I have a New York nose – I'm not smelling the filth. The number one thing I smell right now is pot – like everybody is smoking a joint now, you know?

4. Carol Edwards:

   We collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly, then we moved into the schools and started sniffing the kids at the ankles.

5. Erich Fromm:

   Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies