smelling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɛlɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

Verb

smelling

1. present participle and gerund of smell
2. Used in adjectival compounds.

   foul-smelling (having a foul smell)

   sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

Derived terms

• smelling salts

Noun

smelling (plural smellings)

1. The act by which something is smelled.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

Anagrams

• Mellings