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What is the adjective for smells?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb smell which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

smelly
  1. Having a bad smell.
  2. (figuratively) Having a quality that arouses suspicion.
  3. (computing) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. stinking, foetid, fetid, malodorous, reeking, noisome, putrid, rank, reeky, stinky, noxious, acrid, mephitic, niffy, pongy, pungent, olid, stenchy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, funky, fusty, miasmal, miasmic, musty, niffing, rancid, strong, whiffy, festy, gamy, high, humming, off, ripe, foul-smelling, strong-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking to high heaven, offensive, rotten, stale, nasty, nauseating, revolting, disgusting, repulsive, vile … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “A man with a smelly dog got on board and sat rather too close to my nostrils.”
smellable
  1. (possibly nonstandard) That can be detected by smell.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. detectable, scentable
  3. Examples:
      4. “The flowers in the garden emit a smellable fragrance that engulfs the entire area.”
      “The mama bear checked every part of our camping ground part by a part and searched any smellable things there were.”
      “The purpose of a smellable toy is to further the pets interest in playing with the toy.”
smellier
  1. comparative form of smelly: more smelly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. higher, ranker, more gamy, funkier, more gamey, more malodorous, more stinking, niffier, more off, more pungent, more rancid, more spoiled, more tainted, more fetid, more miasmic, more noisome, pongier, whiffier, more putrid, more spoilt, more reeky, stinkier, more noxious, more mephitic, acrider, stenchier, more olid, fustier, mustier, stronger, frowstier, more miasmal, frowsier, fouler, frowzier, more festy, more foul-smelling, riper, nastier, disgustinger, more offensive, more sickening, more revolting, more repulsive, more loathsome, more nauseating, more repellent, horribler, more distasteful, more obnoxious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “When darkness falls you can switch to a bigger, smellier bait such as flavoured luncheon meat.”
      “But it's bulkier than cocaine, and smellier, which makes it difficult to conceal.”
      “To point out that real autopsies are much messier and smellier would be churlish.”
smelliest
  1. superlative form of smelly: most smelly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. rankest, stinkiest, acridest, niffiest, pongiest, stenchiest, foulest, frowstiest, frowsiest, frowziest, funkiest, fustiest, mustiest, strongest, whiffiest, highest, ripest, most stinking, most fetid, most malodorous, most noisome, most putrid, most reeky, most noxious, most mephitic, most pungent, most olid, most miasmal, most miasmic, most rancid, most festy, most gamy, most off, most foul-smelling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Four of us took off to Oxford Street at noon to hire dinner suits from the smelliest man in London.”
      “Challenge your senses with the smelliest washed-rind cheese, Epoisses, and a full-bodied red wine like Gevrey Chambertin.”
      “Before the 2008 Olympic games it had relocated its smelliest industries to surrounding provinces.”
smelled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of smell
  2. Synonyms:
      3. seen, sensed, detected, discerned, felt, inferred, intuited, perceived, picked up, apprehended, observed, read, readen, recognised, recognized, apperceived, gotten the impression, had a feeling, had a hunch, suspected, felt in bones, felt in gut, gotten vibes, scented, smelt, noted, saw, found, identified, got the impression of, had an awareness of, made out, had a sensation of, picked up on, fand, founden, been aware of, was aware of, were aware of, got the impression, got vibes, conceived, understood, dug, comprehended, grasped, appreciated, assimilated, imagined, registered … more
smelling
  1. present participle of smell
  2. Used in adjectival compounds.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. scenting, sniffing, nosing, snuffing, whiffing, niffing, breathing, inhaling, getting a sniff of, getting a whiff, getting a whiff of, detecting the smell of, catching the scent of, picking up the smell of, stinking, reeking, ponging, humming, stenching, funking, having a bad smell, having the fragrance of, smelling to high heaven, giving off an odor, having an odor, stinking to high heaven, giving off a bad smell, sensing, feeling, detecting, suspecting, discerning, perceiving, apperceiving, intuiting, noting, seeing, finding, identifying, being aware of, making out, picking up on, getting the impression of, having an awareness of, having a sensation of, resembling, suggesting, appearing to be, feeling like … more
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