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Smart   /smɑrt/   Listen
Smart

adjective
(compar. smarter; superl. smartest)
1.
Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.  Antonym: stupid.
2.
Elegant and stylish.  Synonyms: chic, voguish.  "A smart new dress" , "A suit of voguish cut"
3.
Characterized by quickness and ease in learning.  Synonym: bright.  "Smart children talk earlier than the average"
4.
Improperly forward or bold.  Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise.  "Impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup" , "An impudent boy given to insulting strangers" , "Don't get wise with me!"
5.
Painfully severe.
6.
Quick and brisk.  "We walked at a smart pace"
7.
Capable of independent and apparently intelligent action.
noun
1.
A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore.  Synonyms: smarting, smartness.
verb
(past & past part. smarted; pres. part. smarting)
1.
Be the source of pain.  Synonyms: ache, hurt.



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"Smart" Quotes from Famous Books



... tears, did not heed the birds' songs or understand those plain directions for finding Archie which they were so ready to give. The tree trunk felt comfortable against her back. The air came cool and spicy from the wood depths to steal the smart from her hot face. The rustle of the leaves was pleasant in her ear. So the ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... three-days beard lent a gleam of snow to chaps and chin; being toothless, he was an indifferent performer upon the onion. But his hearing was as keen as his eyesight. He caught Angioletto's vivacious heeltaps upon the flags, and peered from burly brows at the smart little gentleman, cloaked, feathered, and gaudy, who looked as suitable to his dusty surroundings as a red ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... began to smart furiously. By the time he was half way up the stairs he could not see a thing around him save murky clouds of smoke, lighted by the tongues of flame that darted like serpents ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... is going back to New York, to open a saloon (as they call it) in partnership with another man. He's in England, he says, on business. It's my belief that he wants money for this new venture on bad security. They're smart people in New York. His only chance of getting his bills discounted is to humbug his relations, ...
— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins
... this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house, drinking of my own rum! Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed dead-lights! Now, Hawkins, you do me justice with the cap'n. You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when you first came in. Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on? When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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