Smell
Posted by ESC on April 23, 2002
In Reply to: parallel adjectives for "smell" - partial guesswork. posted by TheFallen on April 23, 2002
: : I wonder if there's a parallel adjectives for "smell" in the pattern of "see-visible;hear-adible;eat-edible." Thank you for your help.
: Sight - visible
: Sound - audible
: Touch - tangible
: Smell - olfactible (I think - this needs checking, because it's based on my memory, and doesn't feature in my abridged OED)
: Taste - to be strict, edible doesn't really fit too well with the others in my opinion, because it means "capable of being eaten without harm", rather than "possessing a taste which can be perceived". Again though it doesn't feature in my dictionary, I'd place a small bet on something like "gustible" or maybe "gustable".
: I'm sure that someone with the full OED will soon confirm or deny the above.
concerning smell - olfactory, osmatic From the "Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary: for when you know what you want to say but can't think of the word," by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D., (Writer's Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2000). Both are adjectives. The World Book Dictionary lists olfactory also as a noun -- the ability to smell.
I don't think we're there yet. What do you say R. Berg?
- Smell and
Taste reprised TheFallen 04/23/02
- Aromatic?
ESC 04/23/02
- Aromatic? TheUnlurker 04/23/02
- Olfactible . . .
R. Berg 04/23/02
- Smellable nicole 04/24/02
- smellable R. Berg 04/24/02
- Mephitic - the smell of hell ESC 04/23/02
- Smellable nicole 04/24/02
- Aromatic?
ESC 04/23/02