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unsmooth

unsmooth adjective: not smooth; rough.

Adjective

unsmooth (not comparable)

  1. 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

Verb

unsmooth (third-person singular simple present unsmooths, present participle unsmoothing, simple past and past participle unsmoothed)

  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

Antonyms of unsmooth

Forms of unsmooth

third-person singular presentunsmooths
present participleunsmoothing
past participleunsmoothed
pastunsmoothed

Origin of unsmooth

From un- + smooth.

Words formed from unsmooth

Questions about unsmooth

What does unsmooth mean?
Unsmooth means not smooth; rough.
What part of speech is unsmooth?
Unsmooth can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unsmooth in the dictionary

  1. unsmokeable
  2. unsmoked
  3. unsmoking
  4. unsmoky
  5. unsmooched
  6. unsmooth
  7. unsmoothable
  8. unsmoothed
  9. unsmoothened
  10. unsmoothing
  11. unsmoothly

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