different between odoriferous vs ambrosial

English

Alternative forms

• odouriferous

Etymology

From Latin, surface analysis is odor +? -iferous (“bearing, carrying”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d????f???s/, /???d????f??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?d????f???s/, /?o?d????f??s/
• Rhymes: -?f???s

Adjective

odoriferous (comparative more odoriferous, superlative most odoriferous)

1. Having an odor or fragrance.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.3.1.III:

     Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee smelled a filthy stinke.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 77,

     The tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

   • 2018 "Magical Beefery Tour", The Adventures of Kid Danger

     Frankini disguised as Mr. Beefo: "Who wants to get out and smell that wet beef?"
     Captain Man: "Me, I do, Me! Oh yes, so odoriferous!"

Synonyms

• odiferous
• odorous

Derived terms

• odoriferously
• odoriferousness

Translations

English

Etymology

From ambrosia +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /am?b???z??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?o???l/

Adjective

ambrosial (comparative more ambrosial, superlative most ambrosial)

1. (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]

2. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
   • J. S. Byerley, You Taught Me Love

     By your cheek of vermil hue,
     By your lip’s ambrosial dew,
     By your soft and languid eye,
     By your swelling bosom’s sigh,
     You taught me love.

Synonyms

• ambrosian

Derived terms

• ambrosially

Translations