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fragrant

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɹeɪ.ɡɹənt//
  • //ˈfɹæ.ɡɹənt//

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.

adjective

  1. 1

    Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.

    fragrant flower

    fragrant smell

  2. 2

    Attractive.

    party-political interventions made by the fragrant Ms Stella Rimington.

    the fragrant Ms Lawson should rename her show 'Nigella Swallows'

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“to smell”).

Forms

comparative
more fragrant
superlative
most fragrant
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).