Word Meanings - SMUG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. Robynson . The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.
Additional info about word: SMUG
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. Robynson . The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl. (more info) schmuck, Dan. smuk, OSw. smuck, smöck, and E. smock, smuggle; cf. G.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SMUG)
- Hypocritical
- Pharisaical
- sanctimonious
- smug
- smooth
- mealy
- unctuous
- mincing
- Spruce
- Neat
- finical
- trim
- tidy
- smart
- foppish
- dandified
- jaunty
Related words: (words related to SMUG)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - SMARTWEED
An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender. - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - MEALY
1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug , - MINCE
1. To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,... mincing as they go. Is. iii. 16. I 'll... turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride. Shak. - SANCTIMONIOUS
1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - MINCER
One who minces. - DANDIFIED
Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish. - SMOOTHING
fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work. - MINCING
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety. - SPRUCE
Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce , and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. 3. Prussia leather; - JAUNTY
Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner. - SMARTLY
In a smart manner. - SMARTNESS
The quality or state of being smart. - FOPPISH
Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners. Syn. -- Finical; spruce; dandyish. See Finical. -- Fop"pish*ly, adv. -- Fop"pish*ness, n. - SUPERFINICAL
Extremely finical. - CIRCUMINCESSION
The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity. - NOSESMART
A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.