'Smooth' definitions:
Definition of 'smooth'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" [ant: rough, unsmooth]
adjective
Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic, smooth, suave, bland]
adjective
Of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth [ant: rough]
adjective
Smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina" [syn: fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth]
adjective
(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage" [syn: legato, smooth] [ant: disconnected, staccato]
adjective
Of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence; "a smooth ride" [ant: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough]
adjective
Lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
adjective
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; "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" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled]
noun
The act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"
verb
Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood" [syn: smooth, smoothen] [ant: roughen]
verb
Make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" [syn: polish, smooth, smoothen, shine]
verb
Free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negotiations" [syn: smooth, smooth out]
Definition of 'Smooth'
From: GCIDE
- Smooth \Smooth\, adv. Smoothly. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Smooth'
From: GCIDE
- Smooth \Smooth\, n.
- 1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." --Gen. xxvii. 16. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Smooth'
From: GCIDE
- Smooth \Smooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smoothed (sm[=oo]thd); p. pr. & vb. n. Smoothing.] [OE. smothen, smethen, AS. sm[=e][eth]ian; cf. LG. sm["o]den. See Smooth, a.] To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To free from obstruction; to make easy. [1913 Webster]
- Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day. --Pope. [1913 Webster] (b) To free from harshness; to make flowing. [1913 Webster]
- In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (c) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault. [1913 Webster] (d) To give a smooth or calm appearance to. [1913 Webster]
- Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (e) To ease; to regulate. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Smooth'
From: GCIDE
- Smooth \Smooth\ (sm[=oo][th]), a. [Compar. Smoother (sm[=oo][th]"[~e]r); superl. Smoothest.] [OE. smothe, smethe, AS. sm[=e][eth]e, sm[oe][eth]e, where [=e], [oe], come from an older [=o]; cf. LG. sm["o]de, sm["o]e, sm["o]dig; of uncertain origin.]
- 1. Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. [1913 Webster]
- The only smooth poet of those times. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering. [1913 Webster]
- This smooth discourse and mild behavior oft Conceal a traitor. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mech. & Physics) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth-faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding, smooth-grained, smooth-leaved, smooth-sliding, smooth-speaking, smooth-woven, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Even; plain; level; flat; polished; glossy; sleek; soft; bland; mild; soothing; voluble; flattering; adulatory; deceptive. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Smooth'
From: GCIDE
- Smooth \Smooth\, v. i. To flatter; to use blandishment. [1913 Webster]
- Because I can not flatter and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'smooth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accordant,
- acomous,
- acute,
- adipose,
- adulatory,
- agreeable,
- aid,
- align,
- alike,
- all jaw,
- allay,
- ameliorate,
- appease,
- arch,
- arrowlike,
- artful,
- articulate,
- articulated,
- assimilate to,
- assuage,
- astute,
- at rest,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- automatic,
- balance,
- balanced,
- bald,
- bald-headed,
- balmy,
- bare,
- beardless,
- believable,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- blubbery,
- buff,
- burnish,
- burnished,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cagey,
- cajoling,
- calender,
- calm,
- calm down,
- candid,
- canny,
- casual,
- catenated,
- ceaseless,
- chatty,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- Ciceronian,
- civilized,
- clean-shaven,
- clear,
- clear the way,
- clever,
- cloistered,
- coarsen,
- communicative,
- compose,
- concatenated,
- conciliate,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- connected,
- conniving,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continual,
- continued,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- courteous,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cradle,
- crafty,
- credible,
- cunning,
- cursive,
- cushy,
- cute,
- cyclical,
- dab,
- dainty,
- damp,
- dead straight,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- defuse,
- delicate,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- depilated,
- depilous,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- direct,
- disarming,
- disentangle,
- downy,
- drag,
- dress,
- dub,
- dulcet,
- dulcify,
- dwindling,
- ease,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- ebbing,
- effortless,
- effusive,
- elegant,
- eloquent,
- endless,
- equable,
- equal,
- equalize,
- equilibrize,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonious,
- even,
- even out,
- even-tenored,
- expansive,
- expedite,
- explain,
- extend,
- facile,
- facilitate,
- facund,
- faint,
- fair-spoken,
- fat,
- fatty,
- fawning,
- featureless,
- felicitous,
- feline,
- fell,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- fine-spoken,
- finespun,
- flat,
- flatly,
- flatten,
- flattened,
- flattering,
- flip,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- fluffy,
- flush,
- foxy,
- frank,
- free,
- fulsome,
- furbish,
- fuzzy,
- gabby,
- gapless,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- gauzy,
- gentle,
- glabrate,
- glabrescent,
- glabrous,
- glassy,
- glib,
- gloss over,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gossipy,
- graceful,
- grade,
- grain,
- granulate,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- greasy,
- gregarious,
- guileful,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- hairless,
- halcyon,
- harmonious,
- harmonize,
- harrow,
- hasten,
- help along,
- homaloidal,
- homogeneous,
- homogenize,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- horizontal,
- hush,
- hushed,
- immediate,
- immutable,
- impassive,
- in a line,
- incessant,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- interminable,
- invariable,
- inventive,
- iron,
- isolated,
- joined,
- jointless,
- knowing,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lay,
- lay down,
- lay flat,
- lay level,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- lay the dust,
- leiotrichous,
- lenient,
- lessen,
- level,
- light,
- lineal,
- linear,
- linked,
- long-winded,
- loose,
- loquacious,
- lubricate,
- lull,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- make clear,
- make uniform,
- make way for,
- mangle,
- mealymouthed,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- mellow,
- methodic,
- Mickey Mouse,
- mild,
- minimize,
- mitigate,
- moldering,
- mollify,
- monolithic,
- monotonous,
- mow,
- mucoid,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- naked,
- never-ending,
- newsy,
- nonchalant,
- nonstop,
- normalize,
- nothing to it,
- obsequious,
- of a piece,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- open,
- open the way,
- open up,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- overtalkative,
- pacific,
- pacify,
- painless,
- palliate,
- pave,
- pave the way,
- pawky,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- perennial,
- perfect,
- periodic,
- persistent,
- persuasive,
- placate,
- placid,
- plain,
- plane,
- planish,
- plaster,
- plausible,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- polish,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- pour balm into,
- pour balm on,
- prepare,
- prepare the way,
- press,
- prime,
- prolix,
- propitiate,
- pubescent,
- put straight,
- quell,
- quicken,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- rase,
- raze,
- ready,
- rectify,
- rectilineal,
- rectilinear,
- recurrent,
- reduce,
- refine,
- refined,
- regular,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- remove friction,
- repetitive,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- resourceful,
- rest,
- restful,
- resting,
- rich,
- right,
- robotlike,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- roll,
- roll flat,
- rolled,
- roughen,
- round,
- round-the-clock,
- royal,
- rub up,
- ruler-straight,
- run interference for,
- running,
- sand,
- sandblast,
- sandpaper,
- satin,
- satiny,
- scheming,
- seamless,
- sebaceous,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- serpentine,
- serried,
- set straight,
- sharp,
- shave,
- shaven,
- sheltered,
- shifty,
- shine,
- shiny,
- shrewd,
- silken,
- silky,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- simplify,
- sit up,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth down,
- smooth out,
- smooth over,
- smooth the way,
- smooth-faced,
- smooth-running,
- smooth-shaven,
- smooth-sounding,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-textured,
- smooth-tongued,
- smoothed out,
- smoothen,
- smoothened,
- smoothly,
- smug,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soap the ways,
- soapy,
- sociable,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- soft-spoken,
- soften,
- soignee,
- soothe,
- soothing,
- sophistical,
- speed,
- spellbinding,
- squashed,
- squashed flat,
- stabilize,
- stable,
- stand up,
- standardize,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stealthy,
- steamroll,
- steamroller,
- stereotype,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- straight,
- straight-cut,
- straight-front,
- straight-side,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- straightforward,
- strategic,
- streamlined,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- subdue,
- subsiding,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suety,
- supple,
- sweet,
- sycophantic,
- symmetrical,
- symmetrize,
- syrupy,
- systematic,
- tabloid,
- tabular,
- tactical,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tallowy,
- temper,
- thin-spun,
- tonsured,
- tooth,
- tranquil,
- tranquilize,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- tripping,
- trodden,
- trodden flat,
- true,
- Tullian,
- twenty-four-hour,
- unagitated,
- unbar,
- unbend,
- unbending,
- unbent,
- unblock,
- unbowed,
- unbroken,
- unburdensome,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unclog,
- uncluttered,
- uncomplicated,
- unconstrained,
- unctuous,
- uncurl,
- uncurved,
- undeflected,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undistorted,
- undisturbed,
- undiversified,
- unending,
- uneventful,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- uniform,
- uniformize,
- uniformly,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unjam,
- unkink,
- unmoved,
- unobstructed,
- unperturbed,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unrough,
- unroughened,
- unruffled,
- unsnarl,
- unstirring,
- unstopped,
- unswerving,
- untroubled,
- untroublesome,
- unturned,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- upright,
- urbane,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- verbose,
- vertical,
- voluble,
- vulpine,
- waning,
- wary,
- well-ordered,
- well-spoken,
- wheedling,
- wily,
- windy,
- winning,
- wiredrawn
Words containing 'Smooth'
- Smoothed,
- Smoothing,
- Smoothly,
- Smoothness,
- smooth out,
- smooth over,
- Dead smooth,
- Smooth breathing,
- Smooth file,
- Smooth log,
- Smooth sole,
- Smoothing iron,
- Smoothing plane,
- smooth alder,
- smooth aster,
- smooth crabgrass,
- smooth dogfish,
- smooth earthball,
- smooth hammerhead,
- smooth muscle,
- smooth plane,
- smooth sailing,
- smooth softshell,
- smooth sumac,
- smooth the way,
- smooth tongued,
- smooth woodsia,
- Smooth-chinned,
- Smooth-spoken,
- Smooth-tongued,
- american smooth dogfish,
- smooth bark kauri,
- smooth darling pea,
- smooth green snake,
- smooth lip fern,
- smooth muscle cell,
- smooth winterberry holly,
- smooth-bodied,
- smooth-faced,
- smooth-haired,
- smooth-shaven,
- smooth-shelled,
- smooth-skinned,
- smooth-textured,
- smooth-leaved elm,
- smooth-haired fox terrier