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Webster 1913 Edition

Aromatic

Arˊo-mat′ic

(ărˊō̍-măt′ĭk)

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Noun.

A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.

Webster 1828 Edition

Aromatic

AROMAT'IC

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Definition 2024

aromatic

aromatic

English

Alternative forms

aromatick (obsolete)
aromatique (obsolete)

Adjective

aromatic ‎(comparative more aromatic, superlative most aromatic)

Fragrant or spicy.
(organic chemistry) Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons.
(organic chemistry) derived from benzene.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with aromantic.

Antonyms

(organic chemistry): aliphatic

Translations

fragrant or spicy

Armenian:
Bulgarian: арома́тен (bg) ‎(aromáten), благоуха́нен (bg) ‎(blagouhánen)
Catalan: aromàtic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 芳香 (zh) ‎(fāngxiāng), 芬芳 (zh) ‎(fēnfāng), 芬香 (zh) ‎(fēnxiāng)
Dutch: aromatisch (nl), geurig (nl), kruidig
Esperanto:
Finnish: aromikas (spicy), aromaattinen (fi) (fragrant)
French: aromatique (fr), odorant (fr)
Georgian:
German: aromatisch (de), würzig (de), duftend (de)
Greek: αρωματικός (el) m ‎(aromatikós), ευωδιαστός (el) m ‎(evodiastós)
Hungarian: aromás (hu)
Italian: aromatico (it) m

Japanese: 香りのよい ‎(かおりのよい, kaori no yoi), 香ばしい ‎(こうばしい, kōbashii), 芳しい ‎(かんばしい, kanbashii)
Khmer:
Mongolian:
Norwegian:

Bokmål: aromatisk

Nynorsk: aromatisk
Portuguese: aromático (pt), fragrante (pt)
Romanian: aromat (ro) m, aromatic (ro) m
Russian: арома́тный (ru) ‎(aromátnyj), благоуха́нный (ru) ‎(blagouxánnyj), благово́нный (ru) ‎(blagovónnyj), души́стый (ru) ‎(dušístyj)
Serbo-Croatian: mirišljav (sh), aromatičan (sh), mirisan (sh)
Spanish: aromático (es)
Thai:
Vietnamese:
Yiddish: אַראָמאַטיש ‎(aromatish)

in organic chemistry

Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) ‎(aromaten)
Catalan: aromàtic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 芳香族 (zh) ‎(fāngxiāngzú)
Finnish: aromaattinen (fi)
French: aromatique (fr)
German: aromatisch (de)
Italian: aromatico (it), benzenico m
Japanese: 芳香族の ‎(ほうこうぞくの, hōkōzoku no)

Norwegian:

Bokmål: aromatisk

Nynorsk: aromatisk
Persian: آروماتیک ‎(âromâtik)
Portuguese: aromático (pt)
Romanian: aromatic (ro)
Russian: аромати́ческий (ru) ‎(aromatíčeskij)
Spanish: aromático (es)
Tagalog: sanghayain
Turkish: aromatik (tr)

Noun

aromatic ‎(plural aromatics)

A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it.

Translations

fragrant plant or spice added to flavour a dish

Bulgarian: подправка (bg) ‎(podpravka)
Dutch: aromaat (nl)

Finnish: aromaattinen yrtti
Italian: pianta aromatica, gusti (it) m pl

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