'Smattering' definitions:
Definition of 'smattering'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received" [syn: handful, smattering]
noun
A slight or superficial understanding of a subject
Definition of 'Smattering'
From: GCIDE
- Smattering \Smat"ter*ing\, n. A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. [1913 Webster]
- I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. --Burton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'smattering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a little learning,
- amateurism,
- cast,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dash,
- dilettantism,
- dilettantship,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gleam,
- glimmering,
- glimpse,
- half-learning,
- handful,
- hint,
- idea,
- idling,
- imperfect knowledge,
- intimation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lick,
- loitering,
- look,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- scattering,
- scintilla,
- sciolism,
- semi-learning,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shallowness,
- sip,
- slight knowledge,
- smack,
- smatter,
- smattering of ignorance,
- smattering of knowledge,
- smell,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- sprinkling,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- superficiality,
- surface-scratching,
- suspicion,
- taste,
- thought,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tinkering,
- touch,
- toying,
- trace,
- trifling,
- vague notion