Definitions for fragrant
ˈfreɪ grəntfra·grant

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fragrant(adj)

   pleasant-smelling

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1. fragrant(Adjective)

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

Origin: From fragrans, present active participle of fragro.

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1. Fragrant(adj)

   affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume

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1. Fragrant

   Fragrant is an unincorporated community located in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States.

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1. Fragrant

   frā′grant, adj. sweet-scented.—ns. Frā′grance, Frā′grancy, pleasantness of smell or perfume: sweet or grateful influence.—adv. Frā′grantly.—n. Frā′grantness. [Fr.,—L. fragrans, -antis, pr.p. of fragrāre, to smell.]

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1. fragrant

   Having a smell that is pleasing to the senses.

   The roses had a fragrant smell which she loved to smell as she came into the room.

   Submitted by MaryC on May 20, 2016  

How to pronounce fragrant?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fragrant in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fragrant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fragrant in a Sentence

1. 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.

2. Francis Bacon:

   Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

3. Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity:

   Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

4. Sir Francis Bacon:

   Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

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