smell🔊

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

(physiology) The sense that detects odours.

A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

(detect odor) To sense a smell or smells.

(detect anything, odor or otherwise) (by extension) To detect or perceive; often with ''out''.

(omit odor whether good or bad) (copulative) ''Followed by'' (like) ''or'' (of) ''if descriptive'': to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

(have the odor of) (copulative) To smell of; to have a smell of

(omit bad odor) (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

(smack of something whether literally or figuratively) (figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

(obsolete) To give heed to.