smart
/smɑ:t/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Intelligent and quick-thinking: Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence and the ability to learn and understand things quickly.
- Fashionable and stylish: Neat, trim, and stylish in appearance.
- Quick and brisk: Characterized by sharp, vigorous movement or action.
- Severe or sharp: Causing a sharp, stinging pain or a severe, forceful effect.
- Impertinent or cheeky: Showing a lack of respect in a bold, often witty way.
Noun:
- A sharp, stinging pain: A sudden, localized feeling of sharp pain or distress.
Verb (intransitive):
- To feel a sharp, stinging pain: To cause or experience a sharp, often superficial pain.
- To feel mental distress or irritation: To feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- She is a very smart student who always gets top grades. (Intelligent)
- He wore a smart new suit to the interview. (Stylish)
- They set off at a smart pace. (Brisk)
- The smart blow knocked the glass from his hand. (Severe)
- Don't get smart with your teacher! (Impertinent)
Noun:
- He felt the smart of the antiseptic on his cut.
Verb:
- My eyes smart from the smoke.
- He still smarts from the criticism he received.
Advanced Usage
"Smart aleck/smart-ass" (noun, informal, often derogatory): A person who is irritatingly clever or confident in making critical remarks.
- He's such a smart aleck, always correcting people.
"Smart money" (noun phrase): Money bet or invested by those with expert knowledge or inside information.
- The smart money is on the incumbent winning the election.
"To play it smart" (idiomatic phrase): To act in a clever or prudent way.
- If you play it smart, you'll save some money for the future.
Variants and Related Words
- Smartly (adverb): In an intelligent, brisk, or stylish manner.
- She answered the question smartly. / He was smartly dressed.
- Smartness (noun): The quality of being smart.
- Smart-en (verb, rare): To make smarter or more stylish.
- Smartphone (noun): A mobile phone with advanced computing capability.
Synonyms
- Adjective (Intelligent): Clever, bright, sharp, intelligent.
- Adjective (Stylish): Chic, fashionable, elegant, dapper.
- Adjective (Brisk): Quick, brisk, lively, vigorous.
- Verb/Noun (Pain): Sting, hurt, ache, pain.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Smart from/under: To feel distressed or resentful because of (something).
- The team is still smarting from their defeat last season.
Related Idioms
- "Look smart!": Hurry up! (British English).
- Look smart, the bus is coming!
- "A smart cookie" (informal): A clever, shrewd person.
- She's a smart cookie; she'll figure out a solution.
- "Smart as a whip": Very intelligent or quick-witted.
- The new intern is smart as a whip.
Adjective
- capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
- smart weapons
- quick and brisk
- I gave him a smart salute
- we walked at a smart pace
- painfully severe
- he gave the dog a smart blow
- improperly forward or bold
- don't be fresh with me
- impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup
- an impudent boy given to insulting strangers
- Don't get wise with me!
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- some children are brighter in one subject than another
- smart children talk earlier than the average
- elegant and stylish
- chic elegance
- a smart new dress
- a suit of voguish cut
- showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
Noun
- a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
Verb
- be the source of pain