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Smart   /smɑrt/   Listen
adjective
Smart  adj.  (compar. smarter; superl. smartest)  
1.
Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste. "How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience."
2.
Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3.
Vigorous; sharp; severe. "Smart skirmishes, in which many fell."
4.
Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. (Colloq.)
5.
Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "The stars shine smarter."
6.
Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying. "Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?" "A sentence or two,... which I thought very smart."
7.
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
8.
Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Smart money.
(a)
Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
(b)
(Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.
(c)
(Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done.
Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. (Eng.)
Synonyms: Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively; brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy. Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.


noun
Smart  n.  
1.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. "In pain's smart."
2.
Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. "To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart." "Counsel mitigates the greatest smart."
3.
A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. (Slang)
4.
Smart money (see below). (Canf)


verb
Smart  v. t.  To cause a smart in. "A goad that... smarts the flesh."


Smart  v. i.  (past & past part. smarted; pres. part. smarting)  
1.
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.
2.
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship. "No creature smarts so little as a fool." "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it."





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"Smart" Quotes from Famous Books



... hotel where I stopped, and although she was full thirty-five years old, she was altogether the most attractive woman in the house. She was agreeable, good-looking, intelligent, and what the vernacular calls "smart." At all events, she was much too smart for me, ...
— Seven Wives and Seven Prisons • L.A. Abbott
... thing that I am, and plunges me in.... Ye Gods! From that time on I'm lost.... My one hope is in her. My eyes fasten themselves on hers, while a close warmth sticks to me like another skin on top of mine.... The brick's all foamy now ... I smell tar ... my eyes and nostrils smart ... there are storms in my ears. She grows excited, breathes loud and fast, laughs, and scrubs me light-heartedly. At last She rescues me, fishing me out by the nape of my neck, I paw the air, begging for life; then comes the rough towel and the warm coverlet ...
— Barks and Purrs • Colette Willy, aka Colette
... Bee a smart pamphlet came out, called A Short History of Prime Ministers, which was generally believed to be written by our author; and in the same year he published A Letter to the Merchants and Tradesmen of London and Bristol, upon their late glorious ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. • Theophilus Cibber
... the housekeeper. She evidently led a secluded life among her duties; it occurred to him that perhaps she went out, possibly to market, earlier than he came, or later, after he had left the office. In this belief he arrived one morning after an early walk in a smart spring shower, the lingering straggler of the winter rains. There were few people astir, yet he had been preceded for two or three blocks by a tall woman whose umbrella partly concealed her head and shoulders from view. He had noticed, however, even in his abstraction, ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... thing to him on the way. Made my throat ache, now I tell you, Mr. Parker. Made my eyes smart and the fields and sky look blurry to see that poor wreck, with everything gone, and know that the hog that had stayed to home ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day


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