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ADJECTIVE | 1 | smooth | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities |
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2 | smooth, politic, suave | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | |
3 | smooth | Of the margin of a leaf shape | |
4 | smooth, unwrinkled | Not marked with wrinkles | |
5 | smooth, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid | Smooth and unconstrained in movement | |
6 | smooth, legato | Without breaks between notes | |
7 | smooth, uncrannied | Without chinks or crannies | |
8 | smooth | Lacking obstructions or difficulties | |
NOUN | 1 | smooth | The act of smoothing |
VERB | 1 | smooth, smoothen | Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing |
2 | smooth, polish, smoothen, shine | (of surfaces) make shine | |
3 | smooth, smooth out | Free from obstructions |
Sounds | smuw'dh |
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Rhymes | soothe |
Meaning | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities. |
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Examples | "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" |
Similar | creaseless, uncreased; fast; glassy; glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick; marmoreal, marmorean; seamless, unlined, unseamed; velvet, velvety; waxlike, waxy, ceraceous |
See also | even; finished; ironed; fine; slippery, slippy |
Contrary | rough, unsmooth |
Meaning | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. |
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Examples | "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" |
Synonyms | politic, suave |
Similar to | diplomatic, diplomatical |
Adverbs | smoothly |
Meaning | Of the margin of a leaf shape. Not broken up into teeth. |
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Category | botany, phytology |
Similar | entire; repand; sinuate; undulate; unnotched, untoothed |
See also | simple, unsubdivided; compound |
Contrary | rough |
Meaning | Not marked with wrinkles. |
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Synonyms | unwrinkled |
Similar to | unfurrowed |
Meaning | Smooth and unconstrained in movement. |
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Examples | "a long, smooth stride" |
Synonyms | flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid |
Similar to | graceful |
Meaning | Without breaks between notes. Smooth and connected. |
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Synonyms | legato |
Category | music |
Contrary | staccato, disconnected |
Meaning | Without chinks or crannies. |
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Synonyms | uncrannied |
Contrary | crannied |
Meaning | Lacking obstructions or difficulties. |
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Examples | "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly" |
Similar to | easy |
Adverbs | smoothly |
Meaning | The act of smoothing. |
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Examples | "he gave his hair a quick smooth" |
Broader | accomplishment, achievement |
Verbs | smooth |
Meaning | Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "smooth the surface of the wood" |
Synonyms | smoothen |
Entails | rub |
Entailed by | strickle, strike |
Narrower | strip; launch; rake; plane; float; sandpaper, sand; sandblast; file |
Broader | change surface |
Contrary | roughen |
See also | smooth over |
Nouns | smooth; smoother |
Meaning | (of surfaces) make shine. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Model | They smooth the glass tubes |
Synonyms | polish, smoothen, shine |
Entails | rub |
Narrower | Simonize, Simonise; slick, sleek; buff, burnish, furbish, flush; gloss |
Broader | beautify, embellish, prettify |
Meaning | Free from obstructions. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "smooth the way towards peace negociations" |
Synonyms | smooth out |
Broader | rid, free, disembarrass |