Antonyms for smarting

Grammar : Adj

Spell : smahrt

Phonetic Transcription : smɑrt

Definition of smarting

Origin : Old English smeortan "be painful," from Proto-Germanic *smarta- (cf. Middle Dutch smerten, Dutch smarten, Old High German smerzan, German schmerzen "to pain," originally "to bite"), from PIE *smerd- "pain," an extension of the root *mer- (2) "to rub; to harm" (cf. Greek smerdnos "terrible, dreadful," Sanskrit mardayati "grinds, rubs, crushes," Latin mordere "to bite"). Related: Smarted; smarting.

adj painful

Example sentences :

His hand was smarting as though struck with the lash of a whip.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

For a quarter of an hour he thus kept her smarting and trembling.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

For Audrey, smarting from Wyndham's insult, it was the flick of the lash in her face.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

They cannot move their dead cats while smarting 'neath the cruel English yoke.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

"No, Sir," said Grenfell, smarting under the sting of what he felt to be an insult.
Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever

Will she be able to conceal the smarting pain she felt at that moment?
Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai

I know that Pomeroff has been smarting under the insult ever since.
Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith

Her cheeks were red and smarting from the blows she had received.
Extract from : « Sara Crewe » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But in these cases the pain should be more of the smarting, than of the dull kind.
Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin

At length I ceased, half-shamed but still angry and smarting sorely.
Extract from : « Cleopatra » by H. Rider Haggard

Synonyms for smarting

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