Describing Wordsfor Odors

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Here are some adjectives for odors: faintly fetid, wonderful meaty, momentary acrid, acrid furry, distinctive sweet-sour, subtly indefinable, faint but peculiarly hateful, normally foul, sharp, unclean, sickening abominable, odd and somewhat distressing, thick, distasteful, abominable and contagious, necessarily delightful, faint and unrecognizable, delightful fragrant, odd, fetid, smoky animal, gross and disagreeable, distinct and hitherto unknown, forth appetizing, subtle and aromatic, fresh and indescribable, musky-herbal, forth savory, strange musky-herbal, pungent, electrifying, distinctive furry, slight fetid, peculiar and highly aromatic. You can get the definitions of these odors adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to odors (and find more here).

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Words to Describe odors

Below is a list of describing words for odors. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe odors:

faintly fetid wonderful meaty momentary acrid acrid furry distinctive sweet-sour subtly indefinable faint but peculiarly hateful normally foul sharp, unclean sickening abominable odd and somewhat distressing thick, distasteful abominable and contagious necessarily delightful faint and unrecognizable delightful fragrant odd, fetid smoky animal gross and disagreeable distinct and hitherto unknown forth appetizing subtle and aromatic
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fresh and indescribable musky-herbal forth savory strange musky-herbal pungent, electrifying distinctive furry slight fetid peculiar and highly aromatic gracious and mysterious wild pungent tangy, unpleasant fresh complacent raw, fecal overpoweringly foul distinctive, sour sharp, dank peculiarly hateful slight but not overpowering pungent and highly offensive disagreeable, rancid richer woodland sickening and perfumed sour, penetrating infectious and cadaverous clean bitter pleasant ethereal sour, caustic oily-electrical innumerable unfamiliar metallic faint familiar, pungent peculiar but familiar flat, monday-morning keen, tasty unbearably attractive delicate but noticeable ripe and sickening stale and slightly sour faint but utterly disgusting pungent and irresistible distinctly foul unpleasant, acrid proper aromatic cloying sweetish pungently unpleasant unfamiliar but pungently unpleasant familiar rotten flat, acrid disagreeable, fetid old-time fragrant penetrating and spicy ancient and nameless faint sunny cool, earthy pungent and offensive strong and foul characteristic offal fetid feverish distant charred acrid antiseptic greasy, charred familiar blended definite, classic various savory sweet and unmistakable cold, soupy bitter, bright gassy, pungent enormously nostalgic strong and nauseous intolerable ammoniacal somewhat pervasive raw, familiar sour sulfurous bittersweet pervasive dense but exquisite wild, pungent hateful dusty sour, astringent familiar and rancid rich, dangerous earthy, moldy sensual, sweet powerful, stale rancid, pervasive dank, unused magical, spicy odd and troubling faintest or foulest pungent, intoxicating delicious savory peculiar, irritating characteristic disagreeable sweetish, acrid heavy or fetid fetid, sickening rich, stupefying strong, briny sweetly sickish previously unbearable faint persuasive pungent and characteristic sour nor disagreeable strong, unpleasant faintly medicinal slight noxious acrid animal faint dank vaguely sour peculiar, offensive faint fetid strong, disagreeable faint but pervasive stale sweetish clean chemical slight sugary heavy, wet or dry slight peppery forth tempting curious and utterly sickening overpowering foul acrid, repellent blatant artificial faint characteristic earthy, pungent strange, cloying marvelous, powerful pleasant heavy exhilarating, irresistible distractingly sharp sharp interesting familiar, repugnant mid delicate sharp, disturbing dull sweet sickening chemical sundry fragrant foul, noxious faint, peppery fetid, corrupt richly moist sugary, grassy vague, stale odd, fusty pleasant, sharp fetid and nauseous powerful dusty orange citrus stinging rotten residual, faint faint and not distasteful sweet, chemical antiseptic, coppery sweet, sickish curious rancid sickly acrid strong strange all-pervading plebeian feeble but characteristic foul or unwholesome strong sulphurous delightful faint sickening and fetid peculiarly sickening and fetid sanctimonious, collegiate devilish, evil fresh, indescribable wholesome, sweet and penetrating sickening offensive spicy and familiar indefinable but enchanting faint, indefinable but enchanting subtle, faint delicate but impelling indistinct and disagreeable fresh, penetrating fresh and somewhat pungent penetrating and delicious pleasant but very pungent pungent and unusual strong, irritating nutty, autumnal pungent, acrid sweetly acrid faint but noticeable faintly pungent strong citrus dark, acrid succulent sweet slight, characteristic more tangy faint, dank peculiar, unpleasant unwashed animal foul, thick faint, disgusting certain pervasive revolting chemical heavy, sweetish annoyingly sweet strange but agreeable unpleasant and terrible distinctly smoky usual animal faint, sickening characteristic pungent acrid aromatic faint, sweetish strong pleasant strong and distinctive pungent spicy faint unpleasant pungent natural hot rangy toxic or disagreeable distinctive pungent medicinal and chemical wonderful rotten strange, tangy pleasant, smoky faint and blended warm powdered foul industrial sharp woodsy earthy, alien dank sepulchral same invalid faint but serious different airborne ripe, sour odd and pungent ammonial enough greasy pungent, ammonial uncounted, delicious cloying pungent strong or foul sweaty, acrid well-known savory sour, sooty wholesome, earthy faint reptilian clean, medicinal familiar, nutty fresh and woodsy scented alcoholic heavy and spiced faint but sour penetrating modern sweetish, pungent unpleasant or noxious indescribable feral already savory foul, sick down offensive strong and sickening subtler gaseous odd, pungent sweet, nameless rich, sour unusual and offensive foul, bestial sourly fruity pungent, unsavory vile, stale peculiar sour long, savory thin perpetual dusty, herbal pungent, greasy oily medicinal green and sour rich balmy acrid pungent faint, proud faint pungent drowsy, earthy distinctive, fetid impure and offensive thick tangy sundry appetizing vaguely foul disagreeable and nauseous sour, strong extremely disagreeable and nauseous peculiar sodden unbearable, bad distinctly stale incomprehensible and horrible faint carrion spicy but delicate sickeningly sweet and cloying intoxicating eastern strong but fragrant indeed appetizing impersonally nostalgic sultry, dreamy faint but thunderous sweaty bilious pleasantly nostalgic soon savory strongly pungent and offensive ancestral etruscan peculiarly mellow strange and unspeakable odd, heavy certain associate sickish animal disagreeable, personal peculiar clean certain sweet-smelling powerful, pungent perceptible pungent same sweetish tepid woodland mildly acrid pungent or fragrant faintest residual fresh, herbal faintly sulfuric strange, rotten faint, obnoxious pungent, metallic curious, repulsive ripe, unpleasant almost nutty extremely strong and pungent offensive physical sweet, stringent mildly noxious dry and oddly spicy far-off moldy distinctive fishy vague but fearsome penetrating, poignant cloyingly bitter sweaty, humid somehow fiery unclean, pungent peculiar, salty faint, dainty indescribable and heavy odious, indescribable unpleasant, stale pungent, sinister fleeting, delicate faint, suspicious penetrating but very agreeable heavy, virile pungent and unmistakable faint spiced indescribable and clean acrid, disgusting delightful savory purely natural and personal bodily sexual sickish, heavy unsavory and sulphurous abiding unpleasant remarkable fetid sweetly insipid pungently offensive drowsy woodland pleasing, pungent curious mousy moldy and stale fragrant and very agreeable stuffy familiar unmistakable and delicious exhilarating, briny feeble acidulous far pervasive singularly appetizing healthful and fresh penetrating and sweet peculiar sickish unpleasant, pungent distinct aromatic pungent intoxicating aromatic or spicy powerful, spicy queer, salty faint and rather pleasant substantial, strong aromatic, delicious fruity, pleasant stale and pungent peculiarly stale and pungent peculiarly stale fugitive and indefinable pungent, fresh faint, peculiar but powerful unmistakable pungent faint but magical peculiar, fragrant frightful, alarming strong and somewhat disagreeable peculiar, aromatic strong and somewhat unpleasant aromatic and rather pleasant special cloistral peculiar, sulphurous distinct alcoholic overpowering voluptuous caviare-to-the-general sweet and scarcely perceptible new, sweetish acrid, indescribable infrequent but not unfamiliar powerful and unaccustomed intensely powerful and unaccustomed heavy, sickish bad or foul virile electoral characteristic and very disagreeable beloved, delicious faint, spiced offensive and penetrating poisonous and penetrating characteristic and disagreeable far-away but penetrating peculiarly pungent and aromatic sickening and infectious disgusting and sickening disagreeable, persistent agreeable characteristic pleasant characteristic moist, sepulchral horrid familiar delicate characteristic pleasingly aromatic and appetizing pleasingly aromatic aromatic and appetizing familiar and savory faint and delightfully spicy pale, obnoxious acrid and pleasing strong stringent rather strong and disagreeable unpleasant, penetrating heavy astringent faint but unrecognizable somewhat repugnant clean, tangy powerful, rotten subtle, sweetish sickening, pestilential fetid, cadaverous sour, offensive penetrating disagreeable pure brisk pleasant and appetizing rich gummy thick revolting disagreeable sooty disagreeable and acrid peculiarly disagreeable and acrid foul and penetrating faintly sickening sickening, repulsive complex and curious strong and most peculiar pungent, familiar revolting and intolerable fetid, catty special, indescribable nameless and oppressive subtle and distinctive pungent or offensive familiar unaccountable delightful ethereal characteristic fetid elusive, acrid peculiar rancid pungent, maddening over-all dank healthful, sweet dreamy, narcotic narcotic, dreamy disagreeable, pungent sizzling, appetizing sickening, drowsy intensely repulsive peculiar and easily distinguishable proverbially offensive horribly fishy characteristic peculiar peculiar leguminous fainter or stronger sickish, disagreeable piquant, pungent exotic, penetrating disagreeably penetrating subtle and fresh more subtle and fresh acrid, stable sweetish, fetid mawkish or fetid aromatic, appetizing pungent, alcoholic earthy cavernous fruity ethereal pleasing, aromatic spicy and refreshing characteristic ammoniacal strong cheesy brisk, nimble bright, tangible pungent and convincing dull but quite perceptible agreeable, ethereal fishy and ammoniacal penetrating, smoky aromatic, penetrating wonderful pungent astringent, bituminous faint tropical faint recurrent fragrant, natural distinct seminal sensible and delicious extremely offensive and sickening offensive and sickening strong fecal dank and dusty dismal heavy delicate and wild just palpable ripe and peculiar rich, ripe and peculiar faint fat complex and never-to-be-forgotten peculiar but rather agreeable powerful herbaceous strong repulsive pungent ethereal ammoniacal, fishy fetid and disgusting peppery, ammoniacal strange, acrid strong pungent strong peculiar peculiar, pungent dry flinty acrid, unpleasant warm stagnant strong, pungent unfamiliar mechanical rich baked specially sweet thick, unclean faint, telltale acrid and penetrating sharp and fragrant faint noxious pleasant aromatic peculiar pungent familiar, terrifying faint, peculiar softly humid certain rotten utterly sickening strong rosy odd acrid definite male faint curious pungent, unfamiliar faintly disquieting dank, penetrating odd bitter sour, briny smoky, sour alien, rusty peculiar, dreamy strong and acrid faint clammy faint, unwholesome strong, pervasive sick metallic ripe, heavy faint and terrible penetrating, earthy sickening and brutal slight aromatic intolerably fetid delicious, penetrating slight characteristic peculiar fishy sick, rich strong aromatic faint, spicy rich, tangled faint sweetish clean pleasant tangy, metallic comfortable and familiar faint fruity strange unwholesome unpleasant female raw, pungent faint but pungent own hair-raising pungent and pervasive rich, greasy wet, unpleasant sharp aromatic sweetish, sickening keen wet delicious appetizing characteristic aromatic slightly aromatic sharp, pungent sweet, pungent strange, foul occasional clean utterly disgusting other indefinable heavy and weary slightly fetid faintly acrid forth delicious powerful aromatic rather noxious peculiarly disgusting strange pungent strong and disagreeable faint aromatic usual aseptic subtly feminine strong floral acrid charcoal heavy carnal faint, odd twangy medicinal strong animal-like already inhospitable unmistakably feral wildly sharp bitter chymical curious and downright horrid sharp, mousy earthy, pleasant strong, rangy fetid and various overwhelming carrion numerous appealing familiar, fishy astringent and metallic virulently repulsive indescribably hideous wild earthy fetid and stale sickening medicinal acrid, fetid and stale raw, leathery pungent familiar subtle fetid various fruity similar watchful acrid and sulphurous bitter meaty cloying, antiseptic particular flat amazingly intimate heavy vegetal unfamiliar spicy fetid, unwashed familiar noxious overwhelming reptilian in-credibly foul wonderful, clean compelling natural stronger, terrifying discerning distinct pungent, horrible subtle but pleasant foreign, pungent earthy, masculine ably homey succulent early-morning fresh antiseptic sickly sweet and pungent new sweetish familiar nostalgic characteristically hospital distinct but unrecognized peculiar, leafy pinkly clean and sweet pungent, natural pungent, woodsy faint, unpleasant stray and awful persistent moldy sweet and drowsy distinct mousy forth aromatic strong pheromonal personal or animal sweetly thick specially sexual familiar obnoxious keen pleasant fishy-fecal spicy, oriental faintly fishy-fecal delicate woodland strong and unpleasant stale and rancid odd, sweetish transient and artificial indescribable spicy ordinary f�cal unimaginably foul ordinary faecal strong, spicy forth grateful and sweet sickly chemical concomitant revolting thick, pervasive subtly individual normally pleasing sweet and subtly individual strange acrid fruity and spicy faint, dusty injurious and unpleasant stale ammoniac vile and injurious lush fetid spicy foreign strange spicy different and offensive faint, rich myriad, noxious foul, swampy strong ill faint but acrid queer, indistinguishable unsettling, unpleasant rare, spicy faint eerie terribly offensive somehow appropriate various and appetizing staunch, secondary abroad sweet vague, cloying soon delicious wonderful characteristic lusty, primeval greasy, disagreeable appeal, warm thick, characteristic delightfully spicy awful and distinctive strong, characteristic somewhat distressing special savory decayed, rancid sweet, breezy rich, subtle sweet disturbing curious exotic presently savory almost fishy hot and hateful refreshing but bittersweet wild faint faint repulsive faint delightful overpowering fetid keen aromatic omnipresent and unpleasant strongly unpleasant delicate dry also sweetest vaguely sweetish forth unwholesome sour pungent faint, depressing sweetly rotten own savory strongly pungent fragrant but cloying singular foul perhaps fragrant but cloying faint but repellent perhaps fragrant equally faint but repellent vague but repellent vague, dank repellent, sulphurous tly sweet sweet, terrifying unmistakable alcoholic familiar but still disturbing faint acrid crisp, electric rather nastier fierce aromatic typical well-known brash, unmistakable tangy petrochemical sharp, pleasing acrid organic peculiar tangy faint effluvial subtly spicy high, acrid sour and decayed faint charred strange fetid sickly bitter physically perceptible perfumed, acrid pungent earthy terrible foul almost medicinal fruity smoky powerful briny sharp medicinal frank, pungent pungent, rancid pervasive, pungent unmistakable, unpleasant sour dreadful faint, disagreeable unusually foul peculiar, rotten foul pungent sick, cloying faint, homey deathly sweet perceptible bitter slightly pungent odd, herbal sour, excremental stark, pungent sweet peppery aggressively antiseptic stupefying and narcotic sick male sour stale unmistakably familiar petrochem-ical almost petrochem-ical sudden and most unpleasant noxious, sulfurous sweet, antiseptic pungent nervous weird acrid sweet and now sickish now sickish nasty and foul profoundly nasty and foul profoundly nasty oil-ozone-metal neutral oil-ozone-metal unmistakable nutty chemical and hot-metal heavy fecal amazing, intoxicating powerful, greasy unpromisingly solid nauseatingly sweet strange, toxic ominous, alien peculiar, acrid sharper, thinner sickly sour faintly rancid acrid and unpleasant curious but not disagreeable derfully familiar salty, fetid vile, sulfurous dreadful, fetid strong, gassy now cloying uniquely dank as-yet mild fetid stagnant oddly spicy overwhelming sour sweet but not cloying unfamiliar, astringent unusual, fetid distinctive bitter distinctly fishy fine, smoky unidentifiable but unwholesome rich, flinty queerest chemical tangy, insistent dark unmistakable invisible, disgusting sour, tinny pungent, stagnant cloying but not unpleasant foul, hospital exciting animal piercingly pungent clean, intimate powerful metallic unclean, unhealthy distasteful male telltale reptilian rotten citrus sweet or foul additional faint welcome and spicy thick, mineral ripe unpleasant normal fiery harsh antiseptic funny citrus peculiar, bittersweet faint, corrupt nasty, tangy faint unsavory noxious, dizzying hot, abrasive vile, acrid heavy and fetid unmistakable and unpleasant slight, hateful penetrating, all-pervading penetrating, unaccustomed sweet and treacherous queer, rancid indescribably unpleasant pungent and pleasing delicate, significant vague, suspicious characteristic sickening disagreeable, strong distinctively individual ill-defined but all-pervading strange, fetid sudden noxious clean, earthy heavy, fishy fragrant, pungent stealthy, intoxicating peculiar and somewhat aromatic heavy and unhealthy faint but not unpleasant fragrant and appetizing faint, ineffable sweet sickish sweet, unfamiliar dark, characteristic somehow reptilian conceivable discordant resiny, pungent blithe and savory curious, pungent peculiar but powerful volatile and languid narcotic and stronger nauseous and overpowering sweetish aromatic pleasant, aromatic cool, sodden strong, offensive decidedly offensive delightful and appetizing pungent but agreeable strong acidulous strong, catlike faint soporific characteristic seminal pungent and disagreeable strong feline strong, astringent peculiarly sickening faint, repugnant peculiar sulphurous

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Words to Describe odors

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "odors" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "odors" are: faintly fetid, wonderful meaty, momentary acrid, acrid furry, and distinctive sweet-sour. There are 995 other words to describe odors listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe odors suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "odors" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many odors adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is odors?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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