Unsmooth

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow. transitive

    "Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not smooth; rough. not-comparable

    "G. Fletcher How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or caused by an irregular surface wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
roughasperousbrokenbumpychoppycoarse

Antonyms

All antonyms
smooth

Example

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"G. Fletcher How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?"

Etymology

From un- + smooth.

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