smoothrunning

smoothrunning adjective: that operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.

Adjective

smoothrunning (comparative more smoothrunning, superlative most smoothrunning)

That operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
- The placid, smoothrunning Zambesi abruptly comes to the knife cut gorge and plunges its excited waters over the cliff-wall to the foaming abyss below in great plumes of different colours, […]1937 August, Le Grand P. Backman, “‘The Great North Road’”, in Cumorah’s Southern Messenger, volume 2, number 8, page 117
- None of the reorganizations achieves the objective of creating a smoothrunning efficient corporation.1974, H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place, page 41

For a smoothrunning household they need to spend more time developing a rewards system than a punishment system.1995, Mary Ann Shaw, Your Anxious Child: Raising a Healthy Child in a Frightening World, page 109:
This system of governing was claimed to produce an engine that was smoothrunning under all load conditions.1997, Patrick Knight, Stationary Engine Review, page 32:

comparative	more smoothrunning
superlative	most smoothrunning

From smooth + running.

What does smoothrunning mean?: Smoothrunning means that operates in a smooth, trouble-free manner.
How do you use smoothrunning in a sentence?: For a smoothrunning household they need to spend more time developing a rewards system than a punishment system.
What part of speech is smoothrunning?: Smoothrunning is an adjective.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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