fragrant

What it means

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

   fragrant smell

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   fragrant flower

2. UKsometimes ironic or patronisingAttractive.

   the fragrant Ms Lawson should rename her show 'Nigella Swallows'

   2001, Kathryn Flett, Uneven Stephen, television review, The Guardian

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   party-political interventions made by the fragrant Ms Stella Rimington.

   1995, Christopher Hitchens, Letter to the London Review of Books, Vol. 17 No. 4, 23 February 1995

In a sentence

fragrant flower

Where it comes from

1. Latinfrāgrāns
2. Englishfragrant

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“to smell”).