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smoother |
Grep of noun smoother smoother Overview of noun smoother The noun smoother has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoother -- (a power tool used for sanding wood; a loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor) Overview of adj smooth The adj smooth has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts) 1. (11) smooth -- (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") 2. (3) politic, smooth, suave -- (smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "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" - Ezra Pound) 3. (1) smooth -- ((botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth) 4. (1) unwrinkled, smooth -- (not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks") 5. (1) flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth -- (smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose") 6. legato, smooth -- ((music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage") 7. uncrannied, smooth -- (without chinks or crannies) 8. smooth -- (lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly") Antonyms of adj smooth 8 senses of smooth Sense 1 smooth (vs. rough) rough (vs. smooth), unsmooth => abrasive, scratchy => alligatored, cracked => barky => broken, rugged => bullate => bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty => chapped, cracked, roughened => corded, pique, twill, twilled => corduroy(postnominal), log(postnominal) => costate, ribbed => cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous => crushed => homespun(prenominal), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy => lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy => squamulose => lined, seamed => pocked, pockmarked, potholed => puckered => rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony => roughish => rugose => scabby => textured, rough-textured => verrucose, warty, wartlike => imbricate, imbricated => sandpapery => shagged, shaggy Sense 2 politic, smooth, suave INDIRECT (VIA diplomatic) -> undiplomatic Sense 3 smooth (vs. rough) rough (vs. smooth) => angulate => bidentate => biserrate => ciliate, ciliated => crenate, crenated, scalloped => crenulate, crenulated => crispate => dentate => denticulate => emarginate => erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed => fimbriate => fringed, laciniate => lacerate => pectinate => runcinate => serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched => serrulate => rimose => spinose Sense 4 unwrinkled, smooth INDIRECT (VIA unfurrowed) -> furrowed Sense 5 flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth INDIRECT (VIA graceful) -> awkward Sense 6 legato (vs. staccato), smooth Sense 7 uncrannied (vs. crannied), smooth Sense 8 smooth INDIRECT (VIA easy) -> difficult, hard Similarity of adj smooth 8 senses of smooth Sense 1 smooth (vs. rough) => creaseless, uncreased => fast => glassy => glossy, satin(postnominal), satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick => seamless, unlined, unseamed => velvet, velvety => waxlike, waxy, ceraceous => marmoreal, marmorean Also See-> even#3; fine#4; ironed#1; slippery#1, slippy#1 Sense 2 politic, smooth, suave => diplomatic (vs. undiplomatic), diplomatical Sense 3 smooth (vs. rough) => entire => repand => sinuate => undulate => unnotched, untoothed Also See-> simple#6, unsubdivided#1; compound#1 Sense 4 unwrinkled, smooth => unfurrowed (vs. furrowed) Sense 5 flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth => graceful (vs. awkward) Sense 6 legato (vs. staccato), smooth Sense 7 uncrannied (vs. crannied), smooth Sense 8 smooth => easy (vs. difficult) Attributes of adj smooth Familiarity of adj smooth smooth used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 8) Grep of adj smooth smooth smooth-faced smooth-shaven smooth-spoken smooth-tongued smoothbore smoothed smoothened unsmooth Overview of noun smoother The noun smoother has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts) 1. drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoother -- (a power tool used for sanding wood; a loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor) Overview of adj smooth The adj smooth has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts) 1. (11) smooth -- (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") 2. (3) politic, smooth, suave -- (smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "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" - Ezra Pound) 3. (1) smooth -- ((botany) of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth) 4. (1) unwrinkled, smooth -- (not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks") 5. (1) flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth -- (smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose") 6. legato, smooth -- ((music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage") 7. uncrannied, smooth -- (without chinks or crannies) 8. smooth -- (lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly")
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