Definition of smooth

"smooth" in the noun sense

1. smooth

the act of smoothing

"he gave his hair a quick smooth"

"smooth" in the verb sense

1. smooth, smoothen

make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

"smooth the surface of the wood"

2. 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"

"smooth" in the adjective sense

1. 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. 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 manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"

3. smooth

of the margin of a leaf shape not broken up into teeth

4. 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"

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Quotations for smooth

Smooth-polished and rounded. [ Horace ]

O flattery!
How soon thy smooth insinuating oil
Supples the toughest fool! [ Fenton ]

Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]

Take things always by the smooth handle.

Smooth runs the water where brook is deep. [ William Shakespeare ]

A smooth or blank tablet; a blank surface.

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

Chance will not do the work -
Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm.
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.
The steersman's part is vigilance.
Blow it or rough or smooth. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The tempest is over-blown, the skies are clear,
And the sea charmed into a calm so still
That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face. [ Dryden ]

And softened sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. [ Pope ]

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird
That broodest over the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hushed and smooth! [ Keats ]

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it. [ Proverb ]

The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [ Phaedrus ]

Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]

That inexhaustible good-nature which is the most precious gift 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 ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]

smooth in Scrabble®

The word smooth is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters smooth:

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smooth in Words With Friends™

The word smooth is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of smooth

2 letter words in smooth (4 words)

3 letter words in smooth (9 words)

5 letter words in smooth (5 words)

6 letter words in smooth (1 word)

smooth + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving smooth

Shorter words in smooth

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Longer words containing smooth

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