What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Smattered vs Shattered - What's the difference?

smattered | shattered |

As verbs the difference between smattered and shattered

is that smattered is (smatter) while shattered is (shatter).

As an adjective shattered is

physically broken into pieces.

smattered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (smatter)

    • smatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To talk superficially; to babble.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Of state affairs you cannot smatter .
  • To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.
    • to smatter Arabic
  • (figuratively) To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.
  • To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.

    • Derived terms

    * smatterer * smattering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • superficial knowledge; a smattering

    • Anagrams

    *

    shattered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shatter)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • physically broken into pieces
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • emotionally defeated or dispirited
  • * 2000 Lionel Robbins, A history of economic thought: the LSE lectures, Princeton University Press, p221
    • Well, she died after seven years of marriage, and Mill thought that he was shattered', and ' shattered no doubt he was, in the sense of this absolutely irreparable emotional loss.
  • * 2000 Nellie McHenry, Forbidden Dreams of Love, chapter 26
    • She refused to see him for two days. He was shattered . He sent his apologies.
  • * 2010 Mary Alice Beasley, Shattered Lens: A Tale of Domestic Violence and Redemption Through Love, AuthorHouse, p261
    • Yes, he had gotten his revenge for my rejection. I was shattered but remained silent.