Noun:

அறைகுறை அறிவு,

smattering's Usage Examples:

He spoke a smattering of words she didn't understand.

Here congregated hundreds of the younger szlachta, fresh from their school benches, whence they brought nothing but a smattering of Latin and a determination to make their way by absolute subservience to their "elder brethren," the pans.

conger (eel)e winter there is a decent smattering of fish, including conger, ling, bib and pollack.

His father, who was a wealthy man and possessed at any rate a smattering of Greek, Latin and French, was thought to have demeaned himself by marrying the daughter of an Andover tradesman, who afterwards retired to a country house near Reading, where young Jeremy spent many happy days.

They write shorthand, but speak no English; they have a smattering of higher mathematics, yet are ignorant of book-keeping.

The education which he received at Malmesbury included a smattering of logic and physics; but moral philosophy and history, especially the latter, were the subjects to which he devoted most attention.

There 's a little vaudeville in there, smatterings of jazz, and a healthy dose of snotty punk.

The kings choice, however, fell on Hajji Mirza Aghasi, a native of Erivan, who in former years, as tutor to the Sons of Abbas Mirza, had gained a certain reputation for learning and a smattering of the occult sciences, but whose qualifications for statesmanship were craftiness and suspicion.

The Pimas and Papagoes were early converted by the Spaniards, and retain to-day a smattering of Christianity plentifully alloyed with paganism.

Again, it is generally recognized to be undesirable to give marks for a smattering.

There are very few shopping locales without a healthy smattering of mobile phone emporia.

Fairport Convention also included a smattering of songs by various folk artists.

He received the education commonly given to young Russians of good family at that time - a smattering of a great many subjects, and a good practical acquaintance with the chief modern European languages.

Synonyms:

apprehension, discernment, savvy, understanding,

Antonyms:

tasteful, injudiciousness, judiciousness, unperceptive, incomprehension,