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Definition of Smooth |
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Smooth
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. Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair. Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering. Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Smoothly. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. 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. To free from obstruction; to make easy. To free from harshness; to make flowing. To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault. To give a smooth or calm appearance to. To ease; to regulate. To flatter; to use blandishment. Related Definitions: Act, Along, An, Any, Anything, Appearance, Arranged, As, Be, Bland, Blandishment, Board, Body, By, Calm, Can, Causing, Check, Cloth, Ease, Easy, Equably, Even, Evenly, Fault, Flatter, Flowing, Fluent, Free, Frictionless, From, Gently, Give, Glass, Gloze, Hair, Harsh, Harshness, Having, Hesitation, Iron, Is, Make, Making, Mild, Moving, No, Not, Obstructed, Obstruction, Of, On, Or, Over, Palliate, Part, Perceived, Plane, Porcelain, Regulate, Resistance, Rough, Roughness, Ruffled, Sleek, Sliding, Smooth, Smoothing, Smoothly, So, Spread, Stream, Stroke, Surface, That, The, To, Touch, Use, Uttered, Voluble, Which, With, Without |
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Smooth Quotations
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. Thomas Jefferson The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. Eminem Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. H. P. Lovecraft We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. Orville Wright The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. Wolfman Jack The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. Kenny G |
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Smooth Translations
smooth in Danish is flad, glat smooth in Dutch is gelijk, vlak, effen smooth in French is plat, uni, lisse smooth in Italian is levigare, netto smooth in Latin is sedo, teres smooth in Norwegian is flat smooth in Portuguese is liso smooth in Spanish is suave, alisar, raso, pulimentar, liso, plano |
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