smashing
Meanings
Plural: smashings
Noun
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- An overwhelming victory or success.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A disastrous failure of something.
Verb
- hit hard
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- reduce to bankruptcy
- hit violently
- humiliate or depress completely
- damage or destroy as if by violence
- hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- collide or strike violently and suddenly
- overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- present participle and gerund of smash
Adjective Satellite
- very good
- "you look simply smashing"
Adj
- Serving to smash (something).
- Wonderful, very good or impressive.
Origin / Etymology
From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
Synonyms
bang up, bang-up, bankrupt, blast, boom, break, bully, corking, cracking, crush, dandy, dash, demolish, great, groovy, keen, nail, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, ruin, shattering, slap-up, smash, smash up, swell
Scrabble Score: 14
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