smoothly
顺利地,平稳地,顺利的,顺利
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Definitions
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smooth·er, smooth·est.
- : free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- : generally flat or unruffled, as a calm sea.
- : free from hairs or a hairy growth: a smooth cheek.
- : of uniform consistency; free from lumps, as a batter, sauce, etc.
- : free from or proceeding without abrupt curves, bends, etc.: a smooth ride.
- : allowing or having an even, uninterrupted movement or flow: smooth driving.
- : easy and uniform, as motion or the working of a machine.
- : having projections worn away: a smooth tire casing.
- : free from hindrances or difficulties: a smooth day at the office.
- : noting a metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness for a single-cut file.Compare dead-smooth.
- : undisturbed, tranquil, or equable, as the feelings, temper, etc.; serene: a smooth disposition.
- : elegant, easy, or polished: smooth manners.
- : ingratiatingly polite or suave: That salesman is a smooth talker.
- : free from harshness, sharpness, or bite; bland or mellow, as cheese or wine.
- : not harsh to the ear, as sound: the smooth music of a ballroom dance band.
- : Phonetics. without aspiration.
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- : in a smooth manner; smoothly.
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- : to make smooth of surface, as by scraping, planing, or pressing.
- : to remove in making something smooth.
- : to free from difficulties.
- : to remove from a path.
- : to make more polished, elegant, or agreeable, as wording or manners.
- : to tranquilize, calm, or soothe.
- : Mathematics. to simplify by substituting approximate or certain known values for the variables.
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- : act of smoothing: She adjusted the folds with a smooth of her hand.
- : something that is smooth; a smooth part or place: through the rough and the smooth.
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- : smooth over, to make seem less severe, disagreeable, or irreconcilable; allay; mitigate: He smoothed over my disappointment with kind words.
Phrases
- smooth as silk
- smooth over
- smooth sailing
- take the rough with the smooth
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s smooth, it’s velvety, it’s creamy, and when you bite into the beans, they’re falling apart.
Part of McGill’s fee will be a bottle of 147-year-old bourbon that “was so smooth that I imagined a green snake slithering across an emerald lawn” — a fitting description for the entire novel.
Surfactants in makeup and lotions make the product smoother.
While it’s been smooth sailing so far, Grand says he’s prepared if something should go wrong on one of his farming cycles.
The Morgan Stanley team doesn’t expect a smooth path upwards and noted that significant challenges remain.
Everything was moving ahead smoothly, and continued to for the rest of the year.
Everything went smoothly, until the end of the second week: the on-board water filtration system failed.
I feel like if we do a couple more records and things are still going smoothly, then we can talk about it.
And George Herbert Walker Bush for smoothly overseeing the end of the Cold War.
He wanted to act, and he would move whatever needed moving in order to keep the process working smoothly.
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
After the Reserve Banks have been in operation long enough to be running smoothly, not a few branches will doubtless be organized.
It goes more smoothly than any engine I ever saw, and is very easy and regular in its stroke.
Each article of dress, when taken off, should be placed carefully and smoothly in its proper place.
It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.