Usually means: Small, scattered amount of knowledge.
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  1. smattering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smattering: Merriam-Webster
  3. smattering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smattering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. smattering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. smattering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Smattering, smattering: Wordnik
  8. smattering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. smattering: Wiktionary
  10. smattering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. smattering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. smattering: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. smattering: Dictionary.com
  14. smattering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Smattering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. smattering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. smattering: Rhymezone
  18. Smattering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. smattering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. smattering: FreeDictionary.org
  21. smattering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. smattering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. smattering: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smattering: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.
▸ noun:  A small number or amount of something.

Similar:
handful, feel, taste, territory, scope, inkling, shade, experience, skill, surmise, more...

Opposite:
sampling, sprinkling

Phrases:
a smattering, a smattering of, more...

Adjectives:
mere, little, small, fair, superficial, slight, good, sufficient, usual, faint, light

Colors:
    pale pink,     soft peach,     muted teal,     dusty rose,     subtle beige, more...

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Similar:
handful, feel, taste, territory, scope, inkling, shade, experience, skill, surmise, more...

Opposite:
sampling, sprinkling

Phrases:
a smattering, a smattering of, more...

Adjectives:
mere, little, small, fair, superficial, slight, good, sufficient, usual, faint, light

Colors:
    pale pink,     soft peach,     muted teal,     dusty rose,     subtle beige, more...



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