smoothest

1. 1
   adjective

   Superlative of smooth.

   The chef blended the sauce until it was the smoothest it could be.

   Of all the whiskeys they tasted that evening, this one was the smoothest.

   Note

   The top of the scale for every meaning of smooth, not only the tactile one: the smoothest sauce, the smoothest landing, the smoothest talker. Because smooth has one syllable, it takes -est rather than most smooth. The same spelling also belongs to the archaic verb form with thou, where -est marks the person addressed rather than degree. A preceding the usually shows that the word is the adjective.

2. 2
   verbarchaic

   Second-person singular simple present indicative of smooth.

   Note

   Older English gave thou its own verb ending, and this form uses it. Modern English says you smooth instead. The form carries every sense of the verb, figurative ones included, so thou smoothest the way works as well as thou smoothest the cloth. Keep the pairing strict: thou smooths and you smoothest are both mistakes in deliberate period writing.

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