Dictionary Entry
smell
smell is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
- 2noun
To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
- 3noun
To give heed to.
- 4intransitive verb
To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
- 5intransitive verb
To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
- 6intransitive verb
To exercise the sense of smell.
- 7intransitive verb
To exercise sagacity.
- 8transitive verb
The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
- 9transitive verb
The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
- 10noun
the act of perceiving the odor of something
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- 11noun
any property detected by the olfactory system
- 12noun
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
Synonyms
- 13noun
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
"she loved the smell of roses"
- 14noun
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
"the feel of the city excited him"
"a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"
- 15verb
become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
"I sense his hostility"
"i smell trouble"
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- 16verb
emit an odor
"The soup smells good"
- 17verb
smell bad
"He rarely washes, and he smells"
- 18verb
inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- 19verb
have an element suggestive (of something)
"his speeches smacked of racism"
"this passage smells of plagiarism"
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