Smart
[smɑːt] or [smɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore.
(adj.) capable of independent and apparently intelligent action; 'smart weapons' .
(adj.) showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness .
(adj.) quick and brisk; 'I gave him a smart salute'; 'we walked at a smart pace' .
(adj.) painfully severe; 'he gave the dog a smart blow' .
Editor: Solomon--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
(v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
(v. t.) To cause a smart in.
(v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
(v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
(v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
(v. i.) Smart money (see below).
(v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
(v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
(v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
(v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
(v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
(v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
(v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
(v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pungent or sharp pain, lancinating pain.
v. n. [1]. Feel sharp pain.[2]. Suffer, be punished.
a. [1]. Sharp, stinging, keen, severe, poignant, pungent.[2]. Vigorous, forcible, effective, energetic.[3]. Lively, brisk, vivacious, agile, nimble, quick, alert, spry, active, stirring, prompt, ready, sprightly, spirited, dapper.[4]. Expert, dexterous, clever.[5]. Witty, acute, apt.[6]. Spruce, trim, nicely or showily dressed.
Edited by Ingram
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Keen, pungent, piercing, quick, vigorous, sharp, severe, active, clever,brilliant, vivacious, witty, ready, spruce, brisk, fresh, dressy, showy
ANT:Dull, heavy, aching, slow, inactive, stupid, sluggish, unready, slow-minded,unwitty, dowdy, shabby, clownish
Checked by Genevieve
Definition
n. quick stinging pain of body or mind: smart-money: a dandy.—v.i. to feel a smart: to be punished.—adj. causing a smart: severe: sharp: vigorous brisk: acute witty pert vivacious: well-dressed fine fashionable: keen in business: creditable up-to-the-mark.—v.t. Smart′en to make smart to brighten (with up).—adv. Smart′ly.—ns. Smart′-mon′ey money paid by a recruit for his release before being sworn in: money paid for escape from any unpleasant situation or engagement: excessive damages: money allowed to soldiers and sailors for wounds; Smart′ness; Smart′-tick′et a certificate granted to one entitled to smart-money; Smart′-weed a name given to some of the Milkworts from their acrid properties esp. Polygonum Hydropiper or Waterpepper; Smart′y a would-be smart fellow.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'm covered with weales and I smart so! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The smart, treacherous ugly bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And had you a great many smart beaux there? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You may well smart, young man! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I suppose it's smarter to use these rocks and build a good blind for this gun than to make a proper emplacement for it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I should not wish a smarter assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That thou art smarter than I am. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It grew smarter with the increasing height of the bucket, and presently a hundred and fifty feet of rope had been pulled in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was still smarting from my own disappointment; yet this scene oppressed me even to terror, nor could I interrupt his access of passion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At about this time, I began to observe that he was getting flushed in the face; as to myself, I felt all face, steeped in wine and smarting. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I had left England smarting under a sense of injury, from—from—well, it was about a woman; and I swore never to return to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th foot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We oughtenter overlook nobody, Andy, cause the smartest on us gets tripped up sometimes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Pablo was evidently the smartest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This was a point on which Lydgate smarted as much as Wrench could desire. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In testimony of the extent to which he smarted, Mr Fledgeby came wallowing out of the easy-chair, and took another roll on the carpet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Of course he must be free or he wouldn't be George, but he smarts and seems put out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Julia