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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing] n
1: the act of breaking something into small pieces [syn: smashing, shattering]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1825 1. that smashes ; crushing <a smashing defeat> 2. extraordinarily impressive or effective <a smashing performance> • smashingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. superlative; excellent; wonderful; beautiful. Derivatives: smashingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Smash Smash (sm[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smashed (sm[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Smashing.] [Cf. Sw. smisk a blow, stroke, smiska to strike, dial. Sw. smaske to kiss with a noise, and E. smack a loud kiss, a slap.] To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something or someone as smashing, you mean that you like them very much. (BRIT INFORMAL OLD-FASHIONED) She's a smashing girl. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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