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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



... smart and useful man had been a nurse in the Army Medical Corps, which he left some years ago with a good character. Occasionally he found a job at nursing, and stayed at the Shelter, where he was given employment ...
— Regeneration • H. Rider Haggard
... patronisingly on the passengers, as ignorant foreigners who were too certain to be tempted by the treasures which they displayed to need any solicitations. One went by the name of Jamaica Joe, a Negro blacker than the night, in smart white coat and smart black trousers; a tall courtly gentleman, with the organ of self-interest, to judge from his physiognomy, very highly developed. But he was thrown into the shade by a stately brown lady, who was still very handsome—beautiful, if you will—and knew it, ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley
... presents daily a scene more peculiar and quite as gay as the Bois de Boulogne, or the Prater of Vienna, being crowded at that hour by the beauty and fashion of the town enjoying an afternoon drive or horseback ride. Here may be seen gigs driven by young Neapolitans in dashing style, and some smart brushes in the way of racing take place. The small Italian horses are real flyers, and are driven only too recklessly over the crowded course. Mingling with the throng are long lines of donkeys laden with merchandise, ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou
... Drat them!" roared Mr. Farnum. "Making me, and the rest of us, accomplices of a dastardly defaulter. If I ever run afoul of that crowd again—if I ever get my hands on them—won't I make them smart for ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... "It is so much more interesting to talk about people than things." The sentiment was highly characteristic of the mental calibre and associations of the speaker; and certainly the habitual talk—for it is not conversation—of that section of society which calls itself "smart" seems to touch the lowest depth of spiteful and sordid dullness. But still, when the mischiefs of habitual personality have been admitted to the uttermost, there remains something to be said on the other side. We are not inhabitants of Jupiter or Saturn, but human ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell


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