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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
3. noun. To give heed to.
4. intransitive verb. To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
5. intransitive verb. To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
6. intransitive verb. To exercise the sense of smell.
7. intransitive verb. To exercise sagacity.
8. transitive verb. The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
9. transitive 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.
10. noun. the act of perceiving the odor of something

    Synonyms: smelling

11. noun. any property detected by the olfactory system

    Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, scent

12. noun. the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

    Synonyms: olfaction

13. noun. the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form

    "she loved the smell of roses"

    Synonyms: odor, odour

14. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone

15. verb. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

    "I sense his hostility"

    "i smell trouble"

    Synonyms: sense

16. verb. emit an odor

    "The soup smells good"

17. verb. smell bad

    "He rarely washes, and he smells"

18. verb. inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
19. verb. have an element suggestive (of something)

    "his speeches smacked of racism"

    "this passage smells of plagiarism"

    Synonyms: reek, smack

Synonyms

smelling, aroma, odor, odour, scent, olfaction, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone, sense, reek, smack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smell:

mells

Common word forms

smells, smelled, smeller, smellful, smelling, smellable

Words from these letters

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