Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "smeary" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF SMEARY

smeary  [ˈsmɪərɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMEARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Smeary is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SMEARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of smeary in the English dictionary

The definition of smeary in the dictionary is smeared, dirty; blurred by smearing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SMEARY


dearie
ˈdɪərɪ
diary
ˈdaɪərɪ
dimyary
ˈdɪmɪərɪ
enquiry
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ
Erie
ˈɪərɪ
expiry
ɪkˈspaɪərɪ
fiery
ˈfaɪərɪ
hosiery
ˈhəʊzɪərɪ
inquiry
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪ
judiciary
dʒuːˈdɪʃɪərɪ
Kashmiri
kæʃˈmɪərɪ
lire
ˈlɪərɪ
Neri
ˈnɪərɪ
peri
ˈpɪərɪ
query
ˈkwɪərɪ
saimiri
saɪˈmɪərɪ
siri
ˈsɪərɪ
subsidiary
səbˈsɪdɪərɪ
theory
ˈθɪərɪ
weary
ˈwɪərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMEARY

smear
smear campaign
smear tactics
smear test
smearcase
smearer
smearier
smeariest
smeariness
smeath
smectic
smectite
smectitic
smeddum
smee
smeech
smeek
smeeth
smegma
smell

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMEARY

alveary
balneary
beweary
bleary
deary
dreary
Dunleary
footweary
leary
outweary
overweary
Peary
speary
sweary
teary
tracheary
travel-weary
unweary
war-weary
world-weary

Synonyms and antonyms of smeary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «smeary» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF SMEARY

Find out the translation of smeary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of smeary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smeary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

油污
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

smeary
570 millions of speakers

English

smeary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मैला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ملطخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грязный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

smeary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তেলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

smeary
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Smeary
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schmierig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

べたつく
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

더럽혀진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Smeary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có đốm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

smeary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्मेरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yağlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

smeary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

smeary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

брудний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

murdar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

smeary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

morsig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

smeary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

smeary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of smeary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SMEARY»

The term «smeary» is regularly used and occupies the 105.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
51
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «smeary» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of smeary
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «smeary».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SMEARY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «smeary» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «smeary» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about smeary

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMEARY»

Discover the use of smeary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smeary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Soil survey of ...
Bs — 2 to 4 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic, moderately smeary; many very fine, fine, and medium and common coarse roots; very strongly acid (pH 4.5); abrupt ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 2002
2
Exploratory soil survey of Alaska
C3— 5 to 7 inches (12-18 cm) ; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; very weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, but smeary and releases water when rubbed; common roots; abrupt smooth boundary. C4— 7 to 14 inches (18- 35 ...
Samuel Rieger, Dale B. Schoephorster, Clarence E. Furbush, 1979
3
Volcanic Ash Soils: Genesis, Properties and Utilization
Gleyic Andosols (ANg) Andosols showing gleyic properties within 100 cm of the surface; lacking permafrost within 200 cm of the surface. Vitric Andosols (ANZ) Andosols lacking a smeary consistence or having a texture which is coarser than  ...
S. Shoji, M. Nanzyo, R.A. Dahlgren, 1994
4
Soil survey
A — 6 to 12 inches; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam, very dark grayish brown ( 10YR 3/2) moist; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky and nonplastic; weakly smeary; many very fine and fine  ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1992
5
Painter 12 for Photographers: Creating Painterly Images Step ...
I particularly like the smeary variants, as new brush strokes will merge with paint already placed on the canvas. Oils. The best way to use these brushes for cloning is to paint over the picture first with a smeary brush which will provide the  ...
Martin Addison, 2011
6
Soil survey
Bw1-13 to 21 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) gravelly loam, brown (7.5YR 5/4) dry; moderate very fine, fine, and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, sticky and plastic; weakly smeary; many fine and very fine roots; many fine  ...
United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1987
7
Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter 11
Make short, curved strokes with the Smeary Varnish variant. If you want to clone back some of the color from the CIone Source, I suggest the Opaque Round Impasto brush, with CIone CoIor enabled (click the rubber stamp icon in the Colors ...
Tiffany Johnson, 2010
8
Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X
Smudging and smearing can be used to get painterly effects, especially with bristly variants like Smeary Varnish from the Impasto category. But if you make a script using smeary strokes on the figure in one frame, those same strokes won't ...
Rhoda Grossman, 2008
9
Painter X for Photographers: Creating Painterly Images Step ...
Creating Painterly Images Step by Step Martin Addison. Fine Sponge Glazing Sponge Wet Sponge Smeary Wet Sponge Loaded Wet Sponge Grainy Wet Sponge – Clone Color. Sponges. In traditional painting sponges are often used to dab ...
Martin Addison, 2007
10
Soil survey Homer-Ninilchik area Alaska
B21b — 3y2 to 4 inches, very dusky red(2.5YR 2/2) silt loam; weak, very fine, granular structure; very friable; releases water and becomes smeary when rubbed; fragments of charcoal; fungal mycelia; few roots; very strongly acid; abrupt, ...
Robert B. Hinton, United States. Soil Conservation Service, 1971

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMEARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smeary is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dan Kraus, Special to QMI Agency
Late night talk show host Johnny Carson referred to Erie as “the place fish go to die” and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax rhymed Lake Erie with “dreary, weary and smeary ... «London Free Press, Mar 15»
2
Stewart Lee lands killer comic punches
Stewart got to revive a longer list of smeary foodstuff for Rod, and the audience. Well, it's always nice to see a collective approach to self-flagellation at a comedy ... «Gloucester Citizen, Mar 15»
3
Homeless in Vancouver: Bob Ross would've loved this happy painting
It was an oil painting with many classic “Bob Ross” touches: a joyfully naive depiction of an orange teddy-bearish tiger, set against a smeary blue backdrop, with ... «Straight.com, Feb 15»
4
Advice on filmy granite counters, selecting a new furnace
Unfortunately, the result was far from polished. No matter how much I rubbed, the granite remained somewhat smeary, even cloudy, and looked far worse than it ... «Boston Globe, Feb 15»
5
Wonders of the World, Through the Lens of the Hive Mind
Have we been here before? Will we all be in this same spot again soon? Smeary visions of famous destinations, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Colosseum ... «Hyperallergic, Feb 15»
6
Microsoft Lumia 535 review: Losing touch?
That means it's often smeary from fingerprints, needs a polish and just doesn't feel great to the touch - more like a toy than a smartphone. Pocket-lint Nokia 535 - ... «Pocket-lint.com, Jan 15»
7
JACK Quartet makes the abstract absorbing at Roulette
... Williams gauzy harmonics and floating chords capture some of the visual sensations of Richter's fuzzy representations and smeary, horizontal abstractions. «New York Classical Review, Jan 15»
8
Art Listings for Sept. 19-25
A sculpture by Mat Collishaw has a menacing video-animated snake emerging from the smoky depths of a dark mirror. In a large, smeary painting by Barnaby ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
9
Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 5-11
A sculpture by Mat Collishaw has a menacing video-animated snake emerging from the smoky depths of a dark mirror. In a large, smeary painting by Barnaby ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
10
Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 29-Sept. 4
A sculpture by Mat Collishaw has a menacing video-animated snake emerging from the smoky depths of a dark mirror. In a large, smeary painting by Barnaby ... «New York Times, Aug 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Smeary [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/smeary>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z