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Smashing vs Shattering - What's the difference?

smashing | shattering |

As nouns the difference between smashing and shattering

is that smashing is gerund: the action of the verb to smash while shattering is the act of something that shatters.

As verbs the difference between smashing and shattering

is that smashing is while shattering is .

As an adjective smashing

is serving to smash (something).

smashing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to smash (something).
    • The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
  • (British informal ) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
    • We had a smashing time at the zoo.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gerund: The action of the verb to smash .
    • Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.

    Verb

    (head)

    • shattering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

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