malodour vs smell

smell vs malodour

malodour and smell both are nouns.

malodour is not a verb while smell is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
malodour	Yes	No	No	No
smell	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, smell is a hypernym of malodour; that is, smell is a word with a broader meaning than malodour:

malodour: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
smell: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form

Other hypernyms of malodour include odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation.

malodour (noun)	smell (noun)
a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant	the act of perceiving the odor of something
	any property detected by the olfactory system
	the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
	the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

malodour (verb)	smell (verb)
	become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
	emit an odor
	inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
	smell bad
	have an element suggestive (of something)

Difference between malodour and smell

Words related to "smell"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.