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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inodorous en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + odorous.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Odourless.
    • "At Venice, please, if possible, no dreadful, no vulgar hotel; but, if it can be at all managed—you know what I mean—some fine old rooms, wholly independent, for a series of months. Plenty of them, too, and the more interesting the better: part of a palace, historic and picturesque, but strictly inodorous, where we shall be to ourselves, with a cook, don't you know?—with servants, frescoes, tapestries, antiquities, the thorough make-believe of a settlement." 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
    • They are tasteless, inodorous, dry, uninflamable, sparingly soluble, difficult of fusion, and of moderate specific gravity. 1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102:

Deriveds

inodorousness