smell

n.

1. A pleasant smell

   fragrance, odor, scent, perfume, exhalation, redolence, essence, aroma, bouquet, trail, trace, emanation.

2. An unpleasant smell

   malodor, stench, fetidness, stink, mephitis, mustiness, rancidity, effluvium, foulness, reek, uncleanness, fume.

3. The sense of smell

   smelling, detection, olfactory perception, nasal sensory power, olfactory sensitivity, olfaction, response to olfactory stimuli.

smell is the most general word for any quality perceived through the olfactory sense foul and fresh smells; scent refers to the emanation from the thing smelled, often implying that it can be discriminated only by a sensitive sense of smell the scent of a hunted animal; odor suggests a heavier emanation and, therefore, one that is more generally perceptible and more clearly recognizable chemical odors; aroma suggests a pervasive, pleasant, often sharp odor the aroma of fine tobacco

smell

v.

1. To give off odor

   perfume, scent, exhale, emanate, stink, stench.

2. To use the sense of smell

   scent, sniff, inhale, snuff, perceive, detect, nose out, get a whiff of*; see also breathe 1.