pert
Plural: perts
Adjective Satellite
- characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
Adj
- Attractive.
- Well-formed; shapely.
- Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
- Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
- Open; evident; unhidden.
- Clever.
Verb
- To behave with pertness; to misbehave.
Noun
- An impudent person.
Adjective
- Impertinently lively or jaunty; boldly disrespectful.
Examples
- Her PERT challenge to his word surprised everyone, but she was right.
- pert breasts
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.
Synonyms
impertinent, irreverent, saucy, audacious, bold, bold as brass, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocket, cute, dicacious, facey, familiar, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, impudent, insolent, malapert, pert, petulant, sassy
Scrabble Score: 6
pert: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpert: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pert: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary