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What is the adjective for smearing?

What's the adjective for smearing? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb smear which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

smeary
  1. Of a consistency like smear or grease; viscous; adhesive; sticky.
  2. Tending to smear or soil.
  3. Having of showing smears; smeared.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I love messing about with tracing paper and smeary pencils, trying to find the perfect wing.”
      “Nothing spoils the savour of a good wine or takes the zing out of a gin and tonic like having it served in a smeary, bleary glass.”
      “Some might call its indistinct figures and smeary background a mess, unrecognisable to many as a work by his hand.”
smearable
  1. Capable of being smeared or smudged.
smearproof
  1. Resistant to smearing.
smearier
  1. comparative form of smeary: more smeary
smeariest
  1. superlative form of smeary: most smeary
smeared
smearing
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