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Smashing vs Smashingly - What's the difference?

smashing | smashingly |

As an adjective smashing

is serving to smash (something).

As a noun smashing

is Gerund: The action of the verb to smash.

As a verb smashing

is present participle of smash.

As an adverb smashingly is

in a smashing way.

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)

    • smashingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a smashing way.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 27, author=Eric Konigsberg, title=On Your Toes, Blokes, 2 Highnesses Coming — Charles and Camilla, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It has been just over a year since their Wellington boots last sloshed about on these shores, and it’s not as though that trip — billed as their first official overseas tour since being married in April 2005 — came off so smashingly that they, or an adoring American public, ought to be crying out for another. }}