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unsmooth en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- Old English smōþ Middle English smothe Proto-West Germanic *smanþī Old English smēþe Middle English smethe English smooth English unsmooth From un- + smooth.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not smooth; rough.
   • G. Fletcher How may weak mortal ever hope to file His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?
   • In contrast, treatment with the uncleavable Alexa-labelled Ub-3A-G75A/G76A–CPP Tat resulted in an unsmooth and heterogeneous pattern of fluorescence in the cells, with intense staining of cytoplasmic components and nucleoli. 2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI:

Antonyms

smooth

Deriveds

unsmoothly · unsmoothness

unsmooth en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- Old English smōþ Middle English smothe Proto-West Germanic *smanþī Old English smēþe Middle English smethe English smooth English unsmooth From un- + smooth.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.
   • 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. 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170:

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