Describing Wordsfor Odour

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Here are some adjectives for odour: nauseous fishy, omnipresent fishy, abhorrent fishy, omnipresent regional, general fishy, pungent astringent, faint miasmal, acrid, husky, excellent fragrant, delicious moist, ineffable, pungent, overpoweringly strong and offensive, faint mortal, sweetish, earthy, low fetid, extremely nauseous, overpowering spicy, unusually ambrosial, secret, aromatic, altogether unpalatable, alien but earthy, sweet, nauseous, faint, malign, queer, persistent, sweet ethereal, rustic shrewd, horrible and fetid, intolerably offensive, undefined but very slight, delicate unimaginable. You can get the definitions of these odour adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to odour (and find more here).

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Words to Describe odour

Below is a list of describing words for odour. 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 odour:

nauseous fishy omnipresent fishy abhorrent fishy omnipresent regional general fishy pungent astringent faint miasmal acrid, husky excellent fragrant delicious moist ineffable, pungent overpoweringly strong and offensive faint mortal sweetish, earthy low fetid extremely nauseous overpowering spicy unusually ambrosial secret, aromatic altogether unpalatable alien but earthy sweet, nauseous faint, malign queer, persistent sweet ethereal rustic shrewd horrible and fetid
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intolerably offensive undefined but very slight delicate unimaginable dank rich vague and yet fresh invisible and unchanging sweet, virile acrid and warm unbearable, pestilential horrid, nauseous pungent clean pungent and heady disagreeably sweetish new acrid awful pestilential strong and offensive dank mucky faint evil ominous dusty rich pungent subtly spicy thick solvent strong, noxious dank, nauseous moderately offensive revolting fishy intoxicating, beloved fearful monastic peculiar mawkish characteristic sweetish sinister bitter rankest and most intolerable permanent cheesy faint but dreadful characteristically offensive cheesy or buttery hideous, pungent peculiar, earthy insufferably fetid disagreeably powerful grateful but rather heavy extraordinary pungent usual ammoniacal aromatic and unpleasant well-known pungent agreeable ethereal disagreeable or foreign fetid and penetrating pungent rancid unpleasant narcotic feeble narcotic often strong and disagreeable intensely disgusting horrible ammoniacal unpleasant penetrating strong, ungrateful slight and rather aromatic extremely disagreeable and penetrating rather powerful and persistent aromatic fruity strongly ammoniacal offensively powerful sour and fetid bad or fetid animal and chemical powerful but pleasant hideous unknown pleasant surgical sharply briny raw, rancid sweet poignant sticky, oppressive moist pungent familiar, smoky non-metallic, non-toxic subtle, unpleasant well-known milky warm, shut-in exciting masculine pungent and overpowering distinctive but indescribable delightful strange evil narcotic all-pervading, acrid slight pharmaceutical sweet and persistent moist, pungent cadaverous, heavy fragrant visible faint and charming indescribable composite singular and pungent sepulchral and also clerical ever-present and hideous sweetly penetrating pungent and sulphurous pleasant, ethereal indescribably sickening moist sepulchral strong, fishy frightful faecal dry pungent pleasing and not powerful mysteriously offensive palpable unpleasant strange ambrosial powerful, tenacious pleasant pungent loathsome, penetrating poignant pleasant unpleasant, stuffy penetrating and unpleasant powerful fragrant characteristic refreshing aromatic and strong abominably disgusting rancid or fetid strong pungent offensive, pungent heavy nauseous fetid, unpleasant strange, nauseous coarse, penetrating characteristic lilac curious fragrant warm, tempting powerful, luscious unbearably offensive reciprocal evil strangely revolting fragrant sweet-smelling strong and very repulsive sickening repulsive astonishingly offensive overpoweringly fetid overpowering and atrocious nauseous, hateful faint mildewy pungent, faint perspiring african warm, ammoniacal penetrating, ammoniacal vile, sulphurous powerful and peculiarly penetrating indescribably nauseous strong mousy unpleasant sharp pungent, nauseous delightful, aromatic subtle but perfectly specific peculiar and sickening odd, clean constant disgusting peculiar and objectionable stale, peculiar pungent nitrous true delicious hot peculiar haunting, indescribable indescribable semi-medicinal powerfully fragrant warm, offensive well-known but dangerous peculiar delicious offensive and characteristic delicate, familiar powerful disagreeable characteristic, pungent subtle, chemical sulphurous foul penetrating tell-tale delicate, insidious weird, indescribable characteristic and offensive penetrating and offensive penetrating, never-to-be-forgotten intense and not disagreeable consequently stronger decayed, sickening often nauseous particular and often nauseous faintest disagreeable faint distinctive pungent, poisonous sweet unhealthy weak bituminous faint but disagreeable nautico-piratical powerful nauseous strong and very disagreeable warm fishy former acrid powerful, oppressive horrid african heavy, subtle strong and very characteristic dank humid eternal faint divine and intoxicating penetrating and very peculiar strong fetid disquieting and all-pervading honest, earthy familiar, indefinable heavy, narcotic subtle and noxious dank and bitter deliciously penetrating powerful corporeal horrible and pestilential faint and dead familiar but most abominable specific, distinctive bitter, offensive peculiar fusty curious aromatic odd spicy strong and pungent sweet, peculiar strong disagreeable foul, unwashed new and acrid faint wholesome odd acrid delightful warm strange, fetid peculiar offensive peculiar stale penetrating, earthy sweetish, foul peculiar sodden peculiar, offensive characteristic offensive pungent ammoniacal disagreeable animal penetrating, disagreeable pungent and peculiar strong ethereal different and offensive wholesome and powerful least fishy disagreeable pungent rather aromatic disagreeable and penetrating peculiar and somewhat aromatic disagreeable sour heavily oppressive peculiar and rather disagreeable overpoweringly strong strong ammoniacal peculiar unpleasant sickish sweet pungent and penetrating unpleasant earthy pleasant aromatic faint aromatic peculiar pungent pleasant, pungent excellent cordial faintly aromatic unpleasant chemical agreeable aromatic low, unpleasant thin and wholesome acrid and clammy dry, unique almost fetid powerful waxy disgusting basic basic funereal penetrating and nauseous peculiar but distinctive sweet-smelling, sickening different, pungent harsh distinctive unpleasant and unfamiliar lucal last unhealthy strange evil sweet, bland faint and equivocal sour, sickening extraordinary and repellent unfamiliar unpleasant overpowering rancid indoor canine sweet mousy sweetish mousy faint but foul familiar and pleasantly fetid pleasantly fetid same antiseptic sharp, complex elusively familiar fatty sickening sweet, sappy peculiar, distinct nonetheless fishy faint but nonetheless fishy faint but distinctive stronger, acrid curiously sweet and pungent rusty, sweetish pungent rusty ever-present leathery raw but potent odd but not unpleasant elusive sweetish own fainter secretively decayed faint, aromatic wonderfully grateful divinely sticky warm and agreeable enchanting, never-to-be-forgotten strong and disagreeable distinctive and overpoweringly repulsive overpoweringly repulsive numbing, sleepy pungent stable collective, male sour, disgusting faint, oriental also clerical horrid, masculine sickening sweetish faint, magical faint aristocratic pungent aromatic peculiar and rich peculiar faint full and spicy characteristic seminal faintly nauseous somewhat aromatic peculiar, unpleasant delicious and appealing vile and offensive singularly vile and offensive peculiarly disgusting and offensive pungent, waxy unpleasant soapy offensive, sickening dank, sour fresh, maddening unusual sulphurous persistent and characteristic pungent, sickening faint but delectable fragrant, sweet-smelling rich faint strange, earthy horribly fetid earthy, moist more soapy sickly pungent strange fusty refreshing and delicious gentle aromatic heavy sickening pungent penetrating dry, mature rich, sick perfectly specific strong nitrous sharp, fishy medico-surgical semi-medicinal characteristic and pleasant odd and repellent pungent, acrimonious distinct aromatic hot feral indistinct, warm fresh, soapy dank, pungent familiar ammoniacal bitter, healthy disagreeable and sickening horrible acrid nauseous and greasy acrid penetrating disgusting and indescribable sudden and intolerable strong and irritating sweet, unfamiliar unpleasant aromatic powerful aromatic sickening, oppressive peculiar soapy peculiar fragrant characteristic and agreeable faint and agreeable stale fishy pleasant sensuous unpleasant, sulphurous strange, sulphurous warm, sick strongly sulphurous bitter sulphurous fresh, unpleasant peculiar, sweetish dank, penetrating faint, repulsive grateful aromatic faint and sickening faint but exquisite faint, intoxicating exquisite and exhilarating deliciously sweet and grateful increasingly worse peculiar mousy uncommon penetrating unpleasant wet sweet unpleasant inexpressibly clean inexpressibly clean and soft peculiar aromatic strong aromatic delicious aromatic faint, exquisite sweet earthy exceedingly offensive peculiar, pungent sexually exciting clean masculine usual fetid faint peculiar peculiar, pleasant pungent acrid peculiar and strong peculiar and agreeable powerful and distinctive rich, clean faint acrid heady, pungent pungent and unpleasant thy refreshing faint pleasing truly disagreeable stale, fetid strong, pungent delicious appetizing peculiar fetid subtle, potent strong penetrating warm penetrating faint intoxicating ecclesiastical good characteristic penetrating faintly pungent faint, cloying faint and not unpleasant characteristic pungent characteristic aromatic deliciously aromatic horrible dank horrible fetid faint, solemn pungent medicinal strong persistent faintly alcoholic delicate but very distinct faint, intangible stale, pungent heavy greasy faint, fishy faint agreeable powerful agricultural pungent, sulphurous pungent sulphurous delicate woodland heavy and unpleasant fragrant spicy warm cloying acrid and penetrating clean aromatic faint disagreeable same nauseous strong and fragrant curious dreamy rich aromatic usual offensive sweet, healthy slightly pungent warm, penetrating sweet, penetrating peculiar and disagreeable sweet pungent fine aromatic normally human penetrating, all-pervading penetrating, unaccustomed faint, pungent foul, greasy faint, sulphurous faint unpleasant faint sulphurous unmistakable, acrid alien, rusty distinctly nutty dry fetid oddly pungent sweet, irresistible mystical, elusive unpleasant and distasteful warm stuffy sour, spicy unmistakable acrid stale sweaty characteristic fetid special clean sharp cloying pungent but not unpleasant usual foul slightest fruity unpleasant milky sweetish, pungent strongly offensive brief, despairing pungent, disagreeable peculiar and penetrating strong, permanent strong, disagreeable delicate, delicious natural specific pleasantly pungent strong acrid strong and characteristic sweet, earthy subtle and potent peculiar and offensive disgusting and offensive peculiar vulgar pungent, peculiar extremely fragrant moist watery dreadful heavy refreshing and pleasant faint exotic penetrating, peculiar strange aromatic strong, ancient delicious faint `surgical delightful aromatic pungent, heavy faint, sweetish faint but delicious extremely tempting pleasing aromatic sweet, stupefying somewhat peppery rich greasy peculiarly faint peculiar pleasant faint pungent acrid, horrible moist woodland strong, peculiar extraordinarily pungent fetid ammoniacal sensuous intoxicating fresh aromatic delicate, pungent nearly insufferable inexpressibly sickening pleasant, rich fresh and delicious extremely offensive peculiar, bitter slightly acrid warm spicy peculiarly disgusting infinitely suggestive aromatic and pungent slight but peculiar strong, pleasant ammoniacal pungent, sweet strong but pleasant curious, familiar pleasant masculine usual disagreeable sweet penetrating powerful and delicious slight acrid fragrant aromatic delightfully characteristic curious hot curious sweet faint persistent rich fragrant peculiar disagreeable strong unpleasant strong, penetrating strange penetrating such ambrosial faint, dead less aromatic strong sulphurous usual stuffy queer, indefinable curious faint strong and penetrating less fragrant usually unpleasant old faint wild, strong pungent faintest foreign unforgettably strange desolate and terrible curious unpleasant dank unwholesome warm male primeval green faint, disagreeable sharp, medicinal sudden, peculiar sharp, smoky rancid animal familiar cloying subtle, soft delicate good single predominant heavy, numbing certain fishy sweet and distant strong fishy powerful penetrating delicious and appetizing singularly vile peculiar but not unpleasant pleasant refreshing peculiar dank excessively offensive nameless french highly aromatic peculiarly vile highly pungent vague, unsubstantial faint, pleasant temporary bad delicious balmy strong and intoxicating unpleasant human peculiar ethereal somewhat rancid exceedingly disgusting strong and rather unpleasant strong peculiar nauseous and sickening rather acrid pungently sweet rich and spicy faintly rotten dreadfully evil sweet intoxicating sharp penetrating rich fruity faint fresh faintly sweet peculiarly offensive sweet, pungent pungent, aromatic strong, aromatic somewhat pungent faint, thrilling strange, acrid sharp acrid strong, unpleasant distinctly unhealthy sweet subtle especially offensive almost intense faint and delicate faint sickening delicate, sweet peculiar penetrating aromatic old technological strange cool strange and pungent pleasant, sweet murky, stagnant fetid animal sweetly acrid sweetly bitter ancient and exquisite warm aromatic modest and unobtrusive warm, sulphurous curious, subtle strange complex peculiar sweet familiar acrid curious indefinable extremely pungent rather fusty piquant and agreeable cool pungent particularly stuffy strong and agreeable heavy, noxious other sickening strange and memorable strange pungent soft, penetrating extremely penetrating often strong strange sickening keen sweet positive strong certain smoky sweetly soft fishy heavy sweet strange, pungent agreeable and refreshing sweet and heavy powerful and persistent faint, sickening delicate and fragrant fresh, sharp strong characteristic faint, peculiar clean, pungent decidedly strong peculiar heavy same aromatic less pungent strong bad strong ancient faint and pleasant excessively bad miasmal somewhat bad sweetish faint, sweet curious, thin strong antiseptic strangely haunting sooty, smoky faint, old familiar sour special sacred exceedingly pleasing small, keen bitter, pungent nice refined pleasant and sweet aromatic, pungent heavy, dank strong, acrid delicate and indescribable dense, dank warm delicious faint, acrid strong and unpleasant sweet and clean peculiar and characteristic old, stale subtle new slightly disagreeable sweet, aromatic fresh, pleasant strange faint fresh and balmy faint, dry strange, horrible pleasing and characteristic same repulsive acrid peculiarly penetrating faintly unpleasant familiar pungent fæcal fairly vivid warm, aromatic sharp, acrid faint fragrant faint feminine hot delicious sweet and penetrating special and characteristic same objectionable faint, sick powerful and penetrating sharp pungent moist earthy somewhat powerful somewhat fetid strong and persistent faint artificial slight aromatic strange, faint rather disagreeable strong and peculiar rich, delicate certain heretical thin, acrid peculiar and exquisite dry, pungent highly fragrant faint, delicious fetid exceedingly sweet strong animal sweet, metallic sharp unpleasant pungent sweet slightly dirty crisp, sweet clean, aromatic strange, penetrating curious pungent horrible and sickening faint and subtle distinctly disagreeable strong offensive strange rich sharp and penetrating clean and soft certain acrid sharp, sweet pleasant and refreshing faint but distinct sickening sweet strange, hot sweet aromatic own fragrant mere bad same pungent strange sweet same disgusting fresh moist more refreshing disagreeable other indescribable almost chemical quiet and good sweet and spicy peculiar animal hot stale sweet, delicate sharp, pungent sufficiently bad slightly unpleasant faecal subtle and penetrating penetrating own indescribable same oppressive altogether agreeable perfectly indescribable sweet, sharp faint but pleasant same disagreeable strong, sweet delicious, spicy faint spicy strange and disagreeable almost cloying specific animal sweet rich delightfully fresh peculiarly pungent crisp fresh fresh fine nauseous such bad faint, mysterious faint, delicate sweet, faint certain odd appetizing strong herbal sweet, salty sharp sweet sweet, subtle offensive sulphurous non-toxic extremely disagreeable sharp, metallic faint but perceptible curiously sweet faint sour wondrous sweet sweet, moist heavy, oppressive faintly perceptible faint yellow certain singular rather powerful sweet, spicy distinct and characteristic vague, sweet sheep-like faint, unpleasant own typical sweet and pungent excessively strong strong and subtle highly offensive sweet and grateful sweet, wet singular good thick creamy same protective faint but unmistakable sweet and subtle odd, unpleasant delicate, elusive short sweet f�cal faint sweet faint bitter soft delicious strange dead clean sweet sickish peculiarly bitter sickly sweet strange, alien warm, generous unpleasant sweet fresh fragrant sweet, fragrant sweet and delicate sweet and fragrant slight but unmistakable strangely sweet peculiarly disagreeable least objectionable sharp, penetrating strange and peculiar less agreeable faint queer new hot, thick subtle and powerful strong, coarse agreeable heavy, sweet strong original spicy sweet, rich certain delicate sweet and agreeable strange ancient soft and pleasant more fragrant sickening somewhat unpleasant extraordinarily vivid same delicious strange chemical thin sour slight but distinct subtle and complex particularly offensive earthy more penetrating usual strong less unpleasant strange, disturbing strange, delicious deliciously sweet strong, sharp peculiar and distinctive

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Words to Describe odour

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "odour" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "odour" are: nauseous fishy, omnipresent fishy, abhorrent fishy, omnipresent regional, and general fishy. There are 995 other words to describe odour listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe odour 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, "odour" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many odour 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 odour?

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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