smashing
/ˈsmæʃɪŋ/
smashing adjective: serving to smash (something). Also the present participle and gerund of smash.
Adjective
smashing (comparative more smashing, superlative most smashing)
- Serving to smash (something).
- The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
- Wonderful, very good or impressive.
- We had a smashing time at the zoo.
- Um, the reason for this call is because I haven’t told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal! And even if we weren’t getting married tomorrow, I’d ask you to marry me anyway. Yes I would, because you are smashing!2010, Toby Whithouse, “The Vampires of Venice”, in Doctor Who, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill)
Noun
smashing (plural smashings)
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.
- Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117
- 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.
Also used as
smashing is also the present participle and gerund of smash.
smashing meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati
smashing in Tamil
- நொறுக்குதல்
smashing in Malayalam
- wonderful
- തകർപ്പൻ takaṟppaṉ
smashing in Gujarati
- સ્મેશિંગ
Examples of smashing in a sentence
- Hammers are for knocking nails in, not for smashing my windows!
- The new riding habits of the team looked smashing!
- And one speedrunner in particular has been smashing records left, right, and center.
Forms of smashing
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more smashing |
| superlative | most smashing |
| Noun | |
| plural | smashings |
Origin of smashing
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.
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Questions about smashing
- What does smashing mean?
- Smashing means serving to smash (something).
- What is smashing in Tamil?
- Smashing in Tamil is நொறுக்குதல். See Smashing meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is smashing?
- Smashing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce smashing?
- Smashing is pronounced /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: smashing (page history and authors); smashing (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); smashing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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