Meanings
comparative more smashingly · superlative most smashingly
- In a smashing way.
1 more example
It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another.
2007 January 27, Eric Konigsberg, “On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwith a loud crash
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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smashingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smashingly
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