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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | smooth | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities |
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| 2 | smooth, politic, suave | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | |
| 3 | smooth | Of the margin of a leaf shape | |
| 4 | smooth, unwrinkled | Not marked with wrinkles | |
| 5 | smooth, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid | Smooth and unconstrained in movement | |
| 6 | smooth, legato | Without breaks between notes | |
| 7 | smooth, uncrannied | Without chinks or crannies | |
| 8 | smooth | Lacking obstructions or difficulties | |
| NOUN | 1 | smooth | The act of smoothing |
| VERB | 1 | smooth, smoothen | Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing |
| 2 | smooth, polish, smoothen, shine | (of surfaces) make shine | |
| 3 | smooth, smooth out | Free from obstructions |
| Sounds | smuw'dh |
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| Rhymes | soothe |
| Meaning | Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities. |
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| Examples | "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" |
| Similar | creaseless, uncreased; fast; glassy; glossy, satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick; marmoreal, marmorean; seamless, unlined, unseamed; velvet, velvety; waxlike, waxy, ceraceous |
| See also | even; finished; ironed; fine; slippery, slippy |
| Contrary | rough, unsmooth |
| Meaning | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. |
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| Examples | "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" |
| Synonyms | politic, suave |
| Similar to | diplomatic, diplomatical |
| Adverbs | smoothly |
| Meaning | Of the margin of a leaf shape. Not broken up into teeth. |
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| Category | botany, phytology |
| Similar | entire; repand; sinuate; undulate; unnotched, untoothed |
| See also | simple, unsubdivided; compound |
| Contrary | rough |
| Meaning | Not marked with wrinkles. |
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| Synonyms | unwrinkled |
| Similar to | unfurrowed |
| Meaning | Smooth and unconstrained in movement. |
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| Examples | "a long, smooth stride" |
| Synonyms | flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid |
| Similar to | graceful |
| Meaning | Without breaks between notes. Smooth and connected. |
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| Synonyms | legato |
| Category | music |
| Contrary | staccato, disconnected |
| Meaning | Without chinks or crannies. |
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| Synonyms | uncrannied |
| Contrary | crannied |
| Meaning | Lacking obstructions or difficulties. |
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| Examples | "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly" |
| Similar to | easy |
| Adverbs | smoothly |
| Meaning | The act of smoothing. |
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| Examples | "he gave his hair a quick smooth" |
| Broader | accomplishment, achievement |
| Verbs | smooth |
| Meaning | Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "smooth the surface of the wood" |
| Synonyms | smoothen |
| Entails | rub |
| Entailed by | strickle, strike |
| Narrower | strip; launch; rake; plane; float; sandpaper, sand; sandblast; file |
| Broader | change surface |
| Contrary | roughen |
| See also | smooth over |
| Nouns | smooth; smoother |
| Meaning | (of surfaces) make shine. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Model | They smooth the glass tubes |
| Synonyms | polish, smoothen, shine |
| Entails | rub |
| Narrower | Simonize, Simonise; slick, sleek; buff, burnish, furbish, flush; gloss |
| Broader | beautify, embellish, prettify |
| Meaning | Free from obstructions. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "smooth the way towards peace negociations" |
| Synonyms | smooth out |
| Broader | rid, free, disembarrass |