Dictionary entry details
• SMOOTH (noun)
Meaning:
The act of smoothing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
he gave his hair a quick smooth
Hypernyms ("smooth" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
• SMOOTH (adjective)
Meaning:
Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
Context examples:
smooth skin / a smooth tabletop / smooth fabric / a smooth road / water as smooth as a mirror
Similar:
ceraceous; wax-coated; waxlike; waxy (resembling or covered with wax)
velvet; velvet-textured; velvety (smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste)
aerodynamic; flowing; sleek; streamlined (designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow)
seamless; unlined; unseamed (used especially of skin)
glossy; satiny; silken; silklike; silky; sleek; slick (having a smooth, gleaming surface)
glassy (resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness)
fine-textured; smooth-textured (having a smooth, fine-grained structure)
fast ((of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds)
even-textured (having an even texture)
creaseless; uncreased (used especially of fabrics)
Also:
even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))
ironed ((of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron)
fine (of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles)
slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)
Antonym:
rough (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Meaning:
Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
Synonyms:
politic; smooth; suave; bland
Context examples:
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage / the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject / the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error / affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability
Similar:
diplomatic; diplomatical (skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people)
Meaning:
Of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
Similar:
unnotched; untoothed (having no notches)
undulate (having a wavy margin and rippled surface)
sinuate (having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex)
entire ((of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes)
repand (having a slightly undulating margin)
Also:
compound (of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes)
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)
Meaning:
Smooth and unconstrained in movement
Synonyms:
fluent; fluid; smooth; liquid
Context examples:
a long, smooth stride / the fluid motion of a cat / the liquid grace of a ballerina
Similar:
graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)
Meaning:
(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
Synonyms:
legato; smooth
Context example:
a legato passage
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Meaning:
Of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
Context example:
a smooth ride
Antonym:
rough (causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements)
Meaning:
Lacking obstructions or difficulties
Context example:
the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly
Similar:
easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)
Meaning:
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
Synonyms:
placid; tranquil; unruffled; still; quiet; smooth
Context examples:
a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay / the quiet waters of a lagoon / a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky / a smooth channel crossing / scarcely a ripple on the still water / unruffled water
Similar:
calm ((of weather) free from storm or wind)
• SMOOTH (verb)
Meaning:
Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
smoothen; smooth
Context example:
smooth the surface of the wood
Hypernyms (to "smooth" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
"Smooth" entails doing...:
rub (move over something with pressure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smooth"):
sandblast (grind with a sandblast)
sand; sandpaper (rub with sandpaper)
float (make the surface of level or smooth)
plane (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane)
rake (level or smooth with a rake)
launch (smoothen the surface of)
strip (remove the thread (of screws))
file (smooth with a file)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
roughen (make rough or rougher)
Also:
smooth over (treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly)
Meaning:
Make (a surface) shine
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
polish; smooth; smoothen; shine
Context examples:
shine the silver, please / polish my shoes
Hypernyms (to "smooth" is one way to...):
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)
"Smooth" entails doing...:
rub (move over something with pressure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smooth"):
Simonise; Simonize (polish with wax)
sleek; slick (make slick or smooth)
buff; burnish; flush; furbish (polish and make shiny)
gloss (give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They smooth the glass tubes
Meaning:
Free from obstructions
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
smooth out; smooth
Context example:
smooth the way towards peace negotiations
Hypernyms (to "smooth" is one way to...):
disembarrass; free; rid (relieve from)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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