Synonyms of the word smell


SMELLAESTHESIS - AMBIANCE - AMBIENCE - AROMA - ATMOSPHERE - COMPREHEND - ESTHESIS - EXTEROCEPTION - FEEL - FEELING - FLAVOR - FLAVOUR - LOOK - MODALITY - ODOR - ODOUR - OLFACTION - PERCEIVE - PERCEPTION - PROPERTY - SCENT - SENSATION - SENSING - SMELL - SMELLING - SPIRIT - TONE

smell

  • n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals,…
  • n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
  • v. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or…
  • v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  • v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
  • v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
  • v. (obsolete) To give heed to.

aesthesis

  • n. Alternative spelling of esthesis.

ambiance

  • n. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
  • n. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

ambience

  • n. Alternative spelling of ambiance.

aroma

  • n. A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.

atmosphere

  • n. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
  • n. The air in a particular place.
  • n. (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
  • n. A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm).

comprehend

  • v. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
  • v. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

esthesis

  • n. (philosophy, psychology) Elemental awareness of sensory stimulation.

exteroception

  • n. The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.

feel

  • v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
  • v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
  • v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
  • v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
  • n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • n. A vague mental impression.
  • n. An act of fondling.
  • n. A vague understanding.
  • n. An intuitive ability.
  • n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
  • pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

feeling

  • adj. Emotionally sensitive.
  • adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
  • n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
  • n. Emotion; impression.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
  • n. Intuition.
  • n. An opinion, an attitude.
  • v. present participle of feel.

flavor

  • n. American standard spelling of flavour.
  • v. American standard spelling of flavour.

flavour

  • n. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
  • n. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
  • n. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
  • n. The characteristic quality of something.
  • n. (informal) A kind or type.
  • n. (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types…
  • n. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
  • v. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

look

  • v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
  • v. To appear, to seem.
  • v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
  • v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
  • v. To face or present a view.
  • v. To expect or anticipate.
  • v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
  • v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
  • v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
  • v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
  • interj. Pay attention.
  • n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
  • n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
  • n. A facial expression.

modality

  • n. The fact of being modal.
  • n. (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility,…
  • n. (linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood.
  • n. (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
  • n. Any of the senses (such as sight or taste).
  • n. (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e…
  • n. (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
  • n. (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
  • n. (sociology) A concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory.

odor

  • n. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • n. (figuratively) A strong, pervasive quality.
  • n. (figuratively, uncountable) Esteem; repute.

odour

  • n. Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • n. (now rare) Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.

olfaction

  • n. the sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.

perceive

  • v. To see, to be aware of, to understand.

perception

  • n. Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
  • n. Conscious understanding of something.
  • n. Vision (ability).
  • n. Acuity.
  • n. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through…

property

  • n. Something that is owned.
  • n. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  • n. Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  • n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  • n. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
  • n. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  • n. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or…
  • n. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
  • n. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
  • v. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.

scent

  • n. A distinctive odour or smell.
  • n. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
  • n. The sense of smell.
  • n. A perfume.
  • n. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone.
  • n. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
  • v. to detect the scent of.
  • v. to impart an odour to.
  • v. To have a smell.
  • v. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

sensation

  • n. A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
  • n. A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.

sensing

  • v. present participle of sense.
  • n. The act of sensation.

smell

  • n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals,…
  • n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
  • v. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or…
  • v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  • v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
  • v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
  • v. (obsolete) To give heed to.

smelling

  • v. present participle of smell.
  • v. Used in adjectival compounds.
  • n. The act by which something is smelled.

spirit

  • n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
  • n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  • n. Enthusiasm.
  • n. The manner or style of something.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
  • n. Energy; ardour.
  • n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
  • n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
  • n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  • n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
  • n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
  • v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

tone

  • n. (music) A specific pitch.
  • n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  • n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  • n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  • n. General character, mood, or trend.
  • n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  • n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
  • n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  • n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  • n. The shade or quality of a colour.
  • n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  • n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
  • n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
  • n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  • v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
  • v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
  • v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
  • v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
  • pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

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