Word.ws English Dictionary

presmoking

presmoking adjective: before smoking a cigarette etc.

Adjective

presmoking (not comparable)

  1. Before smoking a cigarette etc.
    • In the placebo condition, heart rate decreased consistently from presmoking levels.1972, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volumes 190-191, New York Academy of Sciences, page 211
    • Stewart and Livson (129) had access to records from the presmoking years from kindergarten through high school, of smokers and nonsmokers at age 30.1982, Fred Leavitt, Drugs and behavior, page 185

Origin of presmoking

From pre- + smoking.

Questions about presmoking

What does presmoking mean?
Presmoking means before smoking a cigarette etc.
What part of speech is presmoking?
Presmoking is an adjective.

Words near presmoking in the dictionary

  1. preslug
  2. preslugged
  3. preslugging
  4. preslugs
  5. presmoked
  6. presmoking
  7. presmolt
  8. presmolts
  9. presmooth
  10. presmoothed
  11. presmoother

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: presmoking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “presmoking.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/presmoking. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.