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smooth
Overview of noun smooth
The noun smooth has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. smooth -- (the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth")
Overview of verb smooth
The verb smooth has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (7) smooth, smoothen -- (make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the surface of the wood")
2. (1) polish, smooth, smoothen, shine -- (make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes")
3. smooth, smooth out -- (free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negotiations")
Overview of adj smooth
The adj smooth has 8 senses (first 4 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, bland -- (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 -- (of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth)
4. (1) 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")
5. legato, smooth -- ((music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected; "a legato passage")
6. smooth -- (of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence; "a smooth ride")
7. smooth -- (lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly")
8. placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled -- ((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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun smooth
1 sense of smooth
Sense 1
smooth
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun smooth
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun smooth
1 sense of smooth
Sense 1
smooth
=> accomplishment, achievement
Antonyms of noun smooth
Member Holonyms of noun smooth
Substance Holonyms of noun smooth
Part Holonyms of noun smooth
Member Meronyms of noun smooth
Substance Meronyms of noun smooth
Part Meronyms of noun smooth
Meronyms of noun smooth
Holonyms of noun smooth
Attributes of noun smooth
Derived Forms of noun smooth
1 sense of smooth
Sense 1
smooth
RELATED TO>(verb) smooth#1
=> smooth, smoothen
Domain of noun smooth
Domain Terms of noun smooth
Familiarity of noun smooth
smooth used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun smooth
1 sense of smooth
Sense 1
smooth
> accomplishment, achievement
=> beachhead, foothold
=> cakewalk
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> masterpiece
=> masterstroke
=> credit
=> performance
=> record, track record
=> fait accompli, accomplished fact
=> going, sledding
=> arrival, reaching
=> close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape
=> attainment
=> liberation, release, freeing
=> base on balls, walk, pass
=> haymaking
=> face saver, face saving
=> recruitment, enlisting
=> smooth
Meronyms of noun smooth
1 sense of smooth
Holonyms of noun smooth
Grep of noun smooth
american smooth dogfish
smooth
smooth-haired fox terrier
smooth-leaved elm
smooth alder
smooth aster
smooth bark kauri
smooth crabgrass
smooth darling pea
smooth dogfish
smooth earthball
smooth green snake
smooth hammerhead
smooth lip fern
smooth muscle
smooth muscle cell
smooth plane
smooth softshell
smooth sumac
smooth winterberry holly
smooth woodsia
smoothbark
smoothbore
smoother
smoothhound
smoothhound shark
smoothie
smoothing iron
smoothing plane
smoothness
smoothy
Antonyms of verb smooth
1 of 3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
Antonym of roughen (Sense 1)
=>roughen
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb smooth
3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
=> change surface
=> change
Also See> smooth over#1
Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 3
smooth, smooth out
=> rid, free, disembarrass
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb smooth
2 of 3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
=> strip
=> launch
=> rake
=> plane
=> float
=> sandpaper, sand
=> sandblast
=> file
Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> Simonize, Simonise
=> slick, sleek
=> buff, burnish, furbish, flush
=> gloss
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb smooth
3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
=> change surface
Also See> smooth over#1
Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
Sense 3
smooth, smooth out
=> rid, free, disembarrass
'Cause To' of verb smooth
Derived Forms of verb smooth
1 of 3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
RELATED TO>(noun) smooth#1
=> smooth
RELATED TO>(noun) smoother#1
=> drum sander, electric sander, sander, smoother
Domain of verb smooth
Domain Terms of verb smooth
Familiarity of verb smooth
smooth used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb smooth
3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
EX: They smooth the glass tubes
Sense 3
smooth, smooth out
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb smooth
3 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
> change surface
=> level, level off
=> crust
=> heave, buckle, warp
=> curl, curve, kink
=> unfurl, unroll
=> roll up, wrap up
=> marbleize, marbleise
=> smooth, smoothen
=> roughen
=> fold, fold up, turn up
=> flush, level, even out, even
=> tease
=> impress, imprint
=> spot, fleck, blob, blot
Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
=> groom, neaten
=> dress, groom, curry
=> dress up, window-dress
=> spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up
=> polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> become, suit
Sense 3
smooth, smooth out
> rid, free, disembarrass
=> cleanse
=> relieve
=> smooth, smooth out
=> clear
=> disinfest
=> disembody
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb smooth
Sense 1
smooth, smoothen
=> change surface
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Sense 2
polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
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Sense 3
smooth, smooth out
=> rid, free, disembarrass
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Grep of verb smooth
smooth
smooth out
smooth over
smoothen
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
=> chapped, cracked, roughened
=> corded, twilled
=> costate, ribbed
=> cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous
=> crushed
=> homespun(predicate), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy
=> imbricate, imbricated
=> lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy
=> squamulose
=> lined, seamed
=> pocked, pockmarked, potholed
=> rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony
=> roughish
=> rugose
=> sandpapery
=> saw-like
=> scabby
=> shagged, shaggy
=> textured, rough-textured, coarse-textured
=> verrucose, warty, wartlike
Sense 2
politic, smooth, suave, bland
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, lacerated
=> pectinate
=> rimose
=> runcinate
=> serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched
=> serrulate
=> spinose
Sense 4
fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth
INDIRECT (VIA graceful) -> awkward
Sense 5
legato (vs. staccato), smooth
Sense 6
smooth (vs. rough)
rough (vs. smooth), rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy
Sense 7
smooth
INDIRECT (VIA easy) -> difficult, hard
Sense 8
placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled
INDIRECT (VIA calm) -> stormy
Similarity of adj smooth
8 senses of smooth
Sense 1
smooth (vs. rough)
=> creaseless, uncreased
=> even-textured
=> fast
=> fine-textured, smooth-textured
=> glassy
=> glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick
=> seamless, unlined, unseamed
=> streamlined, aerodynamic, flowing, sleek
=> velvet, velvety, velvet-textured
=> waxlike, wax-coated, waxy, ceraceous
Also See> even#3; fine#3; ironed#1; slippery#1, slippy#1
Sense 2
politic, smooth, suave, bland
=> 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
fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth
=> graceful (vs. awkward)
Sense 5
legato (vs. staccato), smooth
Sense 6
smooth (vs. rough)
Sense 7
smooth
=> easy (vs. difficult)
Sense 8
placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled
=> calm (vs. stormy)
Pertainyms of adj smooth
Attributes of adj smooth
Domain of adj smooth
2 of 8 senses of smooth
Sense 3
smooth (vs. rough)
TOPIC>(noun) botany#2, phytology#1
Sense 5
legato (vs. staccato), smooth
TOPIC>(noun) music#1
Domain Terms of adj smooth
Familiarity of adj smooth
smooth used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =8)
Grep of adj smooth
smooth
smooth-bodied
smooth-faced
smooth-haired
smooth-shaven
smooth-shelled
smooth-skinned
smooth-spoken
smooth-textured
smooth-tongued
smoothbore
smoothed
smoothened
unsmooth
Grep of adv smooth
smoothly
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