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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