Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smell
- Used in adjectival compounds.
foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
1 more example
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
nounsmelling (plural smellings)
plural smellings
- The act by which something is smelled.
To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73
Synonyms & antonyms
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with smelling
sellingtellingspellingcompellingdwellingswellingbellingwellingshellingfellingparallelinggellingcabbeling
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
smelling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelling
MLA
“smelling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelling. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smelling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelling.
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