smart

[Smart]

Although smart is most often used to describe someone who is intelligent, you can also call someone a smart, chic dresser or a smart, sassy wisecracker.

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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.

Noun
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

Verb
be the source of pain

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective
showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

Adjective S.
marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

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Adjective S.
elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"

Adjective S.
characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"


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.


Smart

Smart , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. sm'84rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. , , terrible, fearful, Skr. md to rub, crush. Cf. Morsel.] 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. Chaucer. Shak. 2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

Smart

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

Smart

Smart, n. [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.] 1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. "In pain's smart." Chaucer. 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] Fielding. 4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]

Smart

Smart , a. [Compar. Smarter ; superl. Smartest.] [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.] 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." Clarendon. 4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.] 5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "The stars shine smarter." Dryden. 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. Burrill. Greenleaf. -- Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] Brande & C. Syn. -- 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.

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.

To cause a smart in.

Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.

Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

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Usage Examples

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

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Other Usage Examples

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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