smart

Plural: smarts

Noun

• a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
• A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
• Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
• Clipping of smart money.
• A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

Verb

Verb Forms: smarted, smarting, smarts

• To feel a sharp, stinging pain or discomfort.
• be the source of pain
• To hurt or sting.
• To cause a smart or sting in.
• To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.

Adjective

• Having or showing quick intelligence or mental acuity.
• showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

Adjective Satellite

• elegant and stylish
  • "a smart new dress"
• characterized by quickness and ease in learning
  • "smart children talk earlier than the average"
• improperly forward or bold
• painfully severe
  • "he gave the dog a smart blow"
• quick and brisk
  • "I gave him a smart salute"
  • "we walked at a smart pace"
• capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
  • "smart weapons"

Adj

• Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
• Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
• Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
• Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
• Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
• Sudden and intense.
• Causing sharp pain; stinging.
• Sharp; keen; poignant.
• Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
• Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
• Pretentious; showy; spruce.
• Brisk; fresh.
• Hard-working.

Examples

• a smart breeze
• a smart gown
• a smart outfit
• a smart pain
• A smart Words With Friends player always looks for opportunities to bingo.
• After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
• Don't get smart with me!
• He became tired of his girlfriend's smart remarks.
• He raised his voice; it hurt her feelings right smart.
• It made his eyes smart to see his opponent play ’QUIZZING’ for a massive score.
• smart car
• smartcard
• smartphone
• That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart.
• You look smart in that business suit.

Synonyms

ache, bright, chic, fresh, hurt, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smarting, smartness, voguish, wise, Jemmy-Jessamy, academical, anguish, astute, attractive, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, brainy, brilliant, buck, capable, carpet knight, clever, clueful, cockscomb, cultivated, dandy, dapper, difficulty, dike, distress, dood, dude, dudelet, educated, erudite, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, genius, gifted, go, grief, handsome, hardship, in the know, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, jack-a-dandy, jetter, keen, knowledgeable, knowledgeful, knowsome, learned, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, misery, pain, pang, petit maître, piquant, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, quick, quick-witted, rational, rend, sagacious, savvy, scholared, scholarly, sharp, silly, smart, sophisticated, spark, spiff, stylish, sussed, swell, switched on, talented, throe, tippy, toff, torment, torture, trouble, up on, wark, well-informed, whip-smart, witty

Antonyms

stupid, backward, banal, boorish, dull, dumb, dumb money, garish, ignorant, inept, outré, simple, tacky, uncultivated

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