smooth
having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,093 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,504 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities smooth skina smooth tabletop
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication also: politic, suave, bland he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personagethe manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- smooth and unconstrained in movement also: fluent, fluid, liquid a long, smooth stridethe fluid motion of a cat
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected also: legato a legato passage
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence a smooth ride
smooth in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Graham answered this smooth effrontery with a blunt question.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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He walked out on the structure and looked down on the smooth water rushing through.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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Yes! 'tis a lamentable truth, this smooth, oleaginous, and delicately odorous employment for the silver spoon, was unknown.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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And so, in all ignorance, the Queen followed her out into the garden and listened to her smooth, flattering words.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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One looks at the smooth faces of boys of twenty and wonders what the sculptor Life is going to make of them.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1