Antonyms for smoking
Grammar : Adj, adv, noun, verb |
Spell : smohk |
Phonetic Transcription : smoÊŠk |
- aid
- apathetic
- arctic
- be calm
- be happy
- build
- calm
- cease
- check
- cheerful
- clean
- cleanse
- clear
- cold
- compress
- conceal
- continue
- contract
- cool
- dally
- dawdle
- decelerate
- deflate
- delay
- delighted
- depress
- disappear
- discourage
- disinterested
- dispassionate
- dissuade
- dry
- dull
- easy
- elated
- excited
- exhilarated
- extinguish
- face
- facile
- fail
- flippant
- flourish
- forget
- freeze
- freezing
- friendly
- frigid
- funny
- gentle
- grow
- halt
- happy
- help
- hide
- hinder
- honor
- hurt
- ignore
- improve
- indifferent
- injure
- insignificant
- lethargic
- light
- linger
- little
- lose
- meaningless
- meet
- mild
- minor
- misunderstand
- moderate
- neglect
- obey
- old
- old-fashioned
- out
- peaceful
- pleased
- precede
- procrastinate
- purify
- put out
- quench
- quiet
- remain
- repress
- rest
- retard
- sane
- secret
- serve
- shrink
- slow
- small
- smother
- soften
- stall
- stand
- stay
- sterilize
- stifle
- stop
- subdue
- trivial
- turned off
- unenthusiastic
- unexcited
- unfeeling
- unfriendly
- unimportant
- unpopular
- unserious
- wait
- walk
- wet
- worthless
Definition of smoking
Origin :- late Old English smoca (rare) "fumes and volatile material given off by burning substances," related to smeocan "give off smoke," from Proto-Germanic *smuk- (cf. Middle Dutch smooc, Dutch smook, Middle High German smouch, German Schmauch), from PIE root *smeug- "to smoke; smoke" (cf. Armenian mux "smoke," Greek smykhein "to burn with smoldering flame," Old Irish much, Welsh mwg "smoke").
- The more usual noun was Old English smec, which became dialectal smeech. Abusive meaning "black person" attested from 1913, American English. Smoke-eater "firefighter" is c.1930. Figurative phrase go up in smoke "be destroyed" (as if by fire) is from 1933. Smoke alarm first attested 1936; smoke-detector from 1957.
- As in rabid : adj very angry; maniacal
- As in serious : adj crucial, weighty
- As in fired : adj subjected to fire
- As in burning : adj blazing, flashing
- As in ireful : adj furious
- As in pyretic : adj hot
- As in roasting : adj hot
- As in scalding : adj hot
- As in searing : adj hot
- As in sizzling : adj hot
- As in furious : adj extremely angry, very mad
- As in hot : adj very high in temperature
- As in on a roll : adv enjoying good fortune
- As in tobacco : noun smoking substance
- As in occur : verb take place, happen
- As in puff : verb inhale or exhale air
- As in reek : verb smell of; be characterized by
- As in run : verb move fast on foot
- As in scrutinize : verb examine closely
- As in smolder : verb burn, simmer
- As in befall : verb happen to; take place
- As in burn : verb be on fire; set on fire
- As in butcher : verb slay and prepare animal for meat
- As in cure : verb cook, age food
- As in dirty : verb cause to be soiled
- As in fume : verb get very upset about
- As in happen : verb come to pass; occur
- As in hurry : verb act, move speedily
- The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- He removed from his lips the short corn-cob pipe he was smoking.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- He was smoking his big briar and drinking a huge glass of brown beer.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Then he turned to the sergeant, who was smoking philosophically.
- Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Kua-ko was lying in his hammock, smoking, I think—certainly not reading.
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- But the hot rock was smoking, and the wind blew the smoke into our faces.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- The smoking cattle held their noses low, and swayed beneath the yoke.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- Do I not give thanks for them when they are well roasted and smoking under my nose?
- Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock
- They came in while I was smoking, and I stayed behind to have my smoke out.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- And the tobacconist was left alone in his shop, smoking gravely.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
Synonyms for smoking
- ablaze
- abscond
- accelerate
- action
- afire
- aflame
- alight
- amble
- analyze
- anger
- appear
- ardent
- arduous
- arise
- arrive
- bake
- baked
- baking
- barrel
- be ablaze
- be found
- be permeated by
- be present
- be quick
- be redolent of
- beat it
- bechance
- become a fact
- become known
- become of
- beef up
- beeline
- befall
- begrime
- bent
- bent out of shape
- berserk
- beside oneself
- besoil
- bestir
- betide
- bigoted
- bitten
- blacken
- blaze
- blazing
- blistering
- blotch
- blow
- blow up
- blur
- boil
- boiling
- bolt
- botch
- bound
- brand
- break
- breathe
- breeze
- bristle
- broil
- broiling
- browned off
- bubble
- bullet
- bummed out
- bump
- burn
- burn up
- burned
- burning
- burst
- bustle
- calcine
- calescent
- candle
- canter
- canvass
- career
- carve
- case
- cauterize
- chafe
- chance
- char
- check
- check out
- check over
- chomp at the bit
- churn
- cigar
- cigarette
- clean
- clear out
- close
- coat
- comb
- combust
- come about
- come after
- come down
- come into being
- come into existence
- come off
- come to pass
- conflagrant
- conflagrate
- consider
- consume
- contaminate
- contemplate
- cook
- cook up a storm
- cook with gas
- cooking
- corrupt
- corybantic
- course
- crazed
- crazy
- cremate
- crop
- crop up
- cure
- cut
- cut and run
- cut down
- dangerous
- dart
- dash
- debase
- decalescent
- decamp
- decay
- deep
- defile
- delirious
- demented
- depart
- deranged
- desperate
- develop
- difficult
- dig
- dig in
- discolor
- dissect
- distend
- dog it
- down
- drag
- draggle
- draw
- dress
- drive
- dry
- emit
- encrust
- enkindle
- enkindled
- enlarge
- enraged
- ensue
- enthusiastic
- erupt
- escape
- eventualize
- eventuate
- exist
- expedite
- explode
- explore
- extreme
- extremist
- eyeball
- fall
- fall out
- fanatical
- far-reaching
- fateful
- febrific
- febrile
- fell
- ferment
- fervent
- fester
- fevered
- feverish
- feverous
- fierce
- fiery
- fill
- fire
- fit to be tied
- flame
- flaming
- flare
- flaring
- flash
- flee
- fleet
- flicker
- flipped
- flit
- fly
- foaming at the mouth
- follow
- formidable
- foul
- frantic
- freaked out
- frenetic
- frenzied
- fulminate
- fume
- fuming
- furious
- gallop
- gasp
- gel
- get a load of
- get a move on
- get hot
- get steamed up
- give off odor
- gleaming
- glow
- glowing
- go
- go down
- go like lightning
- go on
- go over with a fine-tooth comb
- goad
- grave
- grievous
- grim
- grime
- gulp
- hacked
- hap
- happen
- hard
- harden
- haste
- hasten
- have an odor
- heat
- heated
- heave
- heavy
- hectic
- hie
- hit
- hopping mad
- hot
- hot-handed
- hotfoot
- huff
- huff and puff
- humid
- hurry
- hurry up
- hustle
- igneous
- ignite
- ignited
- illuminated
- important
- in a groove
- in a towering rage
- in a zone
- in flames
- incandescent
- incensed
- incinerate
- inflate
- infuriated
- inquire into
- insane
- inspect
- intemperate
- intolerant
- investigate
- irate
- irrational
- issue
- jell
- jog
- joint
- keen
- keep
- kindle
- kindled
- kindling
- kipper
- laborious
- leaf
- leg it
- light
- light out
- like an oven
- liquidate
- livid
- look over
- lope
- lose no time
- luck
- mad
- mad-dog
- maddened
- major
- make a break
- make dusty
- make haste
- make impure
- make off
- make short work of
- make time
- make tracks
- maniac
- manifest
- materialize
- meaning business
- meaningful
- meet
- melt
- menacing
- mess up
- mold
- momentous
- muddy
- narrow-minded
- nip
- no joke
- no laughing matter
- nutty
- obsessed
- obtain
- occur
- of consequence
- on fire
- on one's game
- on the warpath
- operose
- out for blood
- ovenlike
- overboard
- overlook
- oxidizing
- pace
- pant
- parch
- parching
- pass
- peg
- penetrate
- perlustrate
- peruse
- pickle
- pierce
- piping
- plant
- playing hard ball
- poisoned
- pollute
- pore over
- present itself
- preserve
- pressing
- probe
- proceed
- pull at
- pull on
- push
- put under a microscope
- quicken
- rabid
- race
- radical
- rage
- raging
- rant
- rave
- recalescent
- recur
- red
- red-hot
- reduce to ashes
- rekindle
- result
- revolutionary
- rip
- roast
- roasting
- rocket
- roll
- rot
- run
- rush
- sally
- salt
- scald
- scalding
- scamper
- scan
- scoot
- scope
- scorch
- scorched
- scorching
- scramble
- scrutinate
- scud
- scurry
- sear
- search
- searing
- seethe
- set a match to
- set on fire
- severe
- shag
- shake
- shake a leg
- shoot
- show
- sick
- sift
- significant
- singe
- sizzling
- skedaddle
- skip
- skitter
- slaughter
- smear
- smell
- smirch
- smoke
- smoking
- smolder
- smoldering
- smouldering
- smudge
- smutch
- snuff
- sobering
- spatter
- speed
- speed up
- spoil
- spot
- spring
- sprint
- spur
- spurt
- stain
- stare
- steam
- steamed
- steamed up
- steaming
- steel
- stench
- step on gas
- step on it
- stick
- stink
- stir
- storm
- strenuous
- strictly business
- study
- stuffy
- stumble
- stumble upon
- suck
- sully
- sultry
- summery
- supervene
- survey
- sweat
- swell
- sweltering
- sweltry
- taint
- take effect
- take flight
- take off
- take place
- take the measure of
- tar
- tarnish
- tear
- tear out
- temper
- thermogenic
- threatening
- toast
- torch
- torrid
- tough
- transpire
- travel
- tropic
- tropical
- trot
- turn on steam
- turn out
- turn up
- ugly
- ultra
- ultraist
- unamusing
- unhumorous
- unreasonable
- up in arms
- urge
- urgent
- vehement
- very warm
- vicious
- view
- violent
- virulent
- warm
- watch
- weed
- weigh
- what goes
- wheeze
- whiff
- whirl
- whish
- whisk
- white
- white-hot
- whiz
- wild
- wither
- worrying
- wrathful
- zealous
- zip
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