smooth /smoodh/

1. Having an even surface
2. Without roughness of texture or taste
3. Evenly spread
4. Glossy
5. Hairless
6. Of even consistency
7. Slippery
8. Gently flowing
9. Easy
10. Bland
11. Fair-spoken
12. Charming, perhaps self-consciously so
13. Classy or elegant (informal)

Smoothly

1. To make smooth, not rough, lumpy, etc
2. To free from obstruction, difficulty or harshness
3. To reduce from a diphthong to a simple vowel
4. To remove by smoothing (often with away; often figurative)
5. To calm or soothe
6. To blandish
7. To make (difficulties or problems) seem less serious or less important (often with over)

1. To become smooth
2. To flatter, blandish or behave ingratiatingly (also transitive verb with it; Shakespeare)

1. A smooth place, part or side
2. An act of smoothing

smoothˈable adjective

smoothˈen transitive verb

To make smooth

smoothˈer noun

1. A person or thing that smooths
2. A smoothing tool, a sleeker
3. A flatterer (obsolete)

smoothˈie noun

1. A plausible or smooth-spoken person (informal)
2. A person elegant or suave in manner or appearance, esp insincerely or excessively so (informal)
3. A thick drink of smooth consistency made with puréed fruit, milk, yoghurt or ice cream

smoothˈing noun and adjective

smoothˈish adjective

smoothˈly adverb

smoothˈness noun

smoothˈ-bore adjective

(of a firearm) not rifled (also smoothˈ-bored)

noun

A gun with a smooth-bored barrel

smoothˈ-browed adjective

With unwrinkled brow

smoothˈ-chinned adjective

Beardless

smoothˈ-coated adjective

Not shaggy-haired

smooth dab see lemon²

smooth-dittˈied adjective (Milton)

Set to words that smoothly fit the tune or, possibly, having a smooth ditty, or set of words

smoothˈ-faced adjective

1. Having a smooth face or surface
2. Pleasant-looking
3. Beardless
4. Unwrinkled
5. Plausible

smooth hound noun

A small shark of the genus Mustelus

smoothing iron noun

A flatiron

smoothing plane noun

A small fine plane used for finishing

smoothˈ-leaved adjective

smooth muscle noun

Unstriated muscular tissue (eg in the walls of the intestines) whose action is slow rhythmic contraction and relaxation, independent of the will

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