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smell has 22 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 10 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
“she loved the smell of roses”
any property detected by the olfactory system
the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
emit an odor
“The soup smells good”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for smell come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.