pleasant-smelling

1. 1.

   having an odor that is pleasing

   Similarodorous

Questions about pleasant-smelling

What does pleasant-smelling mean?

pleasant-smelling means "having an odor that is pleasing".

How many syllables are in pleasant-smelling?

pleasant-smelling has 5 syllables and divides as ple-a-sant--smel-ling under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pleasant-smelling a common word?

pleasant-smelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.