smashing

[ smash-ing ]

adjective

1. impressive or wonderful:

   a smashing display.

2. crushing or devastating:

   a smashing defeat.

smashing

/ ˈsmæʃɪŋ /

adjective

1. informal.
   excellent or first-rate; wonderful

   we had a smashing time

Other Words From

• smashing·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of smashing¹

First recorded in 1825–35; smash + -ing ²

Example Sentences

This doesn’t, of course, excuse any form of violence that took place over the weekend, but it does cast the smashing of onsite ATMs and plundering of merch in a different light.

From Time

If button-smashing is more your beat, check out beyerdynamic’s gaming headphones.

From Popular-Science

Two mysterious galaxies, devoid of dark matter, could have a smashing origin story.

From Science News

Goyer describes it as more of a remix than a direct adaptation, and to my taste, it is a smashing success in storytelling.

From Ars Technica

The spreading, smashing and plunging of tectonic plates shapes far more than just geography.

From Quanta Magazine

Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

From The Daily Beast

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”

From The Daily Beast

When I was growing up they called Green Day and Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins “alternative pop.”

From The Daily Beast

Those who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.

From The Daily Beast

This weekend should have been a smashing success for Johnny Depp.

From The Daily Beast

If she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.

From Project Gutenberg

Once even a blue bean (a bullet) made sad work with my head, and my fist has got a deuce of a smashing.

From Project Gutenberg

I gathered that he thought something of the boy, and was heating up to the door-smashing stage.

From Project Gutenberg

Now good-natured Alfaretta was nothing if not helpful, and quite human enough to enjoy smashing something.

From Project Gutenberg

Jim took a few pulls at the strong, black tobacco, and began to reconsider his notion about smashing up the service.

From Project Gutenberg

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