smashing

Meaning

Adj

1. Serving to smash (something).
2. (British, Ireland) Wonderful, very good or impressive.

Noun

1. The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
2. The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
3. The hitting of something extremely hard.
4. The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
5. (idiomatic, informal) An overwhelming victory or success.
6. The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
7. (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
8. (archaic, slang) A disastrous failure of something.

Verb

present participle and gerund of smash

Synonyms

crushing

swell

groovy

bully

peachy

shattering

great

nifty

slap-up

dandy

destruction

bang-up

corking

demolishing

capital

cracking

keen

breaking

neat

not bad

incandescent

knockdown

lofty

lucent

lustrous

luxe

magisterial

magnificent

marvellous

mean

mighty

nipping

overpowering

potent

pulverisation

pulverization

rotund

shining

sparkling

spiffing

splendid

splendiferous

stately

stunning

stupendous

sublime

super

superb

tearing

terrific

tremendous

wonderful

cracking to pieces

aureate

fantabulous

awesome

beaming

beautiful

blazing

bright

brilliant

copasetic

crackerjack

destructive

eminent

empyreal

empyrean

epic

fab

fabulous

fulgent

glary

gorgeous

grand

Translations

sensass

🆒

génial

aplastante

géniale

super

bárbaro

formidable

zertrümmernd

sensationnel

cazip

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsmæʃɪŋ/

Etymology

Cognate with Irish: is

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic: 's

In summary

From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.