Dictionary Definition
smattering
Noun
1 a small number or amount; "only a handful of
responses were received" [syn: handful]
2 a slight or superficial understanding of a
subject
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- ˈsmæɾɹˌɨŋg
- ˈsmætərɪŋ
Noun
Translations
superficial knowledge
- Dutch: greintje
- Japanese: 少し
small number
Verb
smattering- present participle of smatter
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a little learning, amateurism, cast, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dash, dilettantism, dilettantship, few, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around,
gleam, glimmering, glimpse, half-learning, handful, hint, idea, idling, imperfect knowledge,
intimation, jerking
off, kidding around, lick,
loitering, look, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around,
piddling, playing, playing around,
pottering, puttering, scattering, scintilla, sciolism, semi-learning,
shade, shadow, shallowness, sip, slight knowledge, smack, smatter, smattering of
ignorance, smattering of knowledge, smell, soupcon, spark, spatter, spattering, sprinkling, suggestion, sup, superficiality,
surface-scratching, suspicion, taste, thought, tincture, tinge, tinkering, touch, toying, trace, trifling, vague
notion