smooth

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
• Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
• Bland; glib.
• Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
• Suave; sophisticated.
• Natural; unconstrained.
• Unbroken.
• Placid, calm.
• Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
• Not grainy; having an even texture.
• Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
• Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
• That factors completely into small prime numbers.
• Lacking marked aspiration.
• Involuntary and non-striated.

Adverb

• Smoothly.

Noun

• Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
• A smoothing action.
• A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
• A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
• The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.

Verb

• To make smooth or even.
• To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
• To make straightforward or easy.
• To calm or palliate.
• To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
• To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.

Related

Similar words

• even
• fluid

Opposite words

• rough
• uneven
• bumpy

Origin

• From Middle English smoothe, smothe, smethe, from Old English smōþ and Old English smēþe, both from Proto-Germanic *smanþaz, *smanþiz, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith, Low German smood and smödig, Dutch smeuïg (from earlier smeudig).