Silky vs. Smooth — What's the Difference?

Made of silk; silken.

Having a surface free from irregularities, roughness, or projections; even.

Resembling silk; smooth or lustrous.

Free from waves or disturbances; calm

Covered with or characterized by fine soft hairs or feathers

Free from hair, whiskers, or stubble

Pleasantly agreeable, as to the ear

Having a short dense flat coat. Used of dogs.

Suave or ingratiating

Having a fine texture

Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.

Having an even consistency

Smooth and pleasant; seductive.

Having an even or gentle motion or movement

(botany) Covered in long, slender, glistening hairs pressed close to the surface; sericeous.

Having no obstructions or difficulties

Alternative spelling of silkie

Easy-going; serene

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

Not sharp or bitter in taste

Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.

Delicately pleasing to the ear; not harsh or grating

Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

Ingratiatingly polite and agreeable

Having a smooth, gleaming surface;

To make (something) even, level, or unwrinkled

To rid of obstructions, hindrances, or difficulties

To soothe or tranquilize; make calm

To cause to appear less harsh or severe than is the case

To become smooth.

The act of smoothing.

A smooth surface or part.

Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.

Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.

Bland; glib.

Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.

Suave; sophisticated.

(of an action) Natural; unconstrained.

(of a motion) Unbroken.

Placid, calm.

(of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.

(of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.

(of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.

Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.

That factors completely into small prime numbers.

Lacking marked aspiration.

Involuntary and non-striated.

Smoothly.

Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.

A smoothing action.

A domestic animal having a smooth coat.

A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.

(statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.

(transitive) To make smooth or even.

(transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.

(transitive) To make straightforward or easy.

(transitive) To calm or palliate.

To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.

(West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.

Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.

Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.

Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

Smoothly.

The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.

That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.

To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.

To free from obstruction; to make easy.

To free from harshness; to make flowing.

To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.

To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

To ease; to regulate.

To flatter; to use blandishment.

The act of smoothing;

Make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing;

(of surfaces) make shine;

Free from obstructions;

Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities;

Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication;

Of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth

Not marked with wrinkles;

Smooth and unconstrained in movement;

Without breaks between notes; smooth and connected;

Without chinks or crannies

Lacking obstructions or difficulties;