SMOOTH Copy link • SMOOTH 1. adj., PROP., Not rough, levis (general term, opposed to asper; ☞ but in the sense of “without hair,” it is only poetical): levigatus: politus (rendered smooth, polished). To make smooth, levigare: polire. Slippery, lubricus. Without hair, bald (by nature), sine pilo or pilis: pilo carens: (by artificial means), depilatus (general term, deprived of hair): rasus: tonsus (shaven, shorn; opposed to intonsus): glaber (PROP. naturally smooth, without hair; opposed to pilosus; then, also, rendered smooth by shaving or plucking off the hair). Figuratively. Bland, mild, blandus (e.g., words, a tongue): mendax (lying). Flowing, soft (of style), fluens. Easy, Vid. 2. v. PROP., To free from roughness, levigare, more rarely levare (general term): polire (so that the thing smoothed receives a polish; also of the smoothness of style, etc. ☞ Both levigare and polire are used of making smooth with a knife, a file, pumice-stone, or in any other manner): limare (to file): runcinare (to plane): fricare (to smooth by rubbing; e.g., pavimentum): radere (to scrape, rub with pumice stone; Vid: Mart., 1, 118): To level, Vid: To facilitate, Vid: SMOOTHLY. Not roughly, by circumlocution with the adjective (☞ leviter does not occur). With soft language, leniter: blande: comiter: benigne. Vid: GENTLY.