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Adjective smooth has 8 senses
- 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"
Antonyms: rough, unsmooth, abrasive, scratchy, alligatored, barky, broken, rugged, bullate, bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty, chapped, cracked, roughened, corded, twilled, costate, ribbed, cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous, crushed, homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy, lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy, squamulose, lined, seamed, pocked, pockmarked, potholed, rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony, roughish, rugose, scabby, textured, rough-textured, verrucose, warty, wartlike, imbricate, imbricated, sandpapery, shagged, shaggy
- 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
Antonym: undiplomatic (indirect, via diplomatic)
- smooth - of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
Antonyms: rough, angulate, bidentate, biserrate, ciliate, ciliated, crenate, crenated, scalloped, crenulate, crenulated, crispate, dentate, denticulate, emarginate, erose, jagged, jaggy, fimbriate, fringed, laciniate, lacerate, pectinate, runcinate, serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched, serrulate, rimose, spinose
- unwrinkled, smooth - not marked with wrinkles; "unwrinkled cheeks"
Antonym: furrowed (indirect, via unfurrowed)
- 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"
Antonym: awkward (indirect, via graceful)
- legato, smooth - without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage"
- uncrannied, smooth - without chinks or crannies
- smooth - lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
Antonyms: difficult, hard (indirect, via easy)
Noun smooth has 1 sense
- smooth - the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"
--1 is a kind of accomplishment, achievement
Verb smooth has 3 senses
- smooth, smoothen - make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood"
--1 is one way to change surface
Antonyms: roughen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- polish, smooth, smoothen, shine - (of surfaces) make shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes"
--2 is one way to beautify, embellish, prettify
Sample sentence:
They smooth the glass tubes
- smooth, smooth out - free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations"
--3 is one way to rid, free, disembarrass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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