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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



... bright red brick, it is doing its work, as Whitbury folk know well by now. Pleasant, too, though still more ugly, those long red arms of new houses which Whitbury is stretching out along its fine turnpikes,—especially up to the railway station beyond the bridge, and to the smart new hotel, which hopes (but hopes in vain) to outrival the ancient "Angler's Rest." Away thither, and not to the Railway Hotel, they trundle in a fly—leaving Mark Armsworth all but angry because they will not sleep, as well as breakfast, lunch, and ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... in a body at a smart run, but the terrified Esquimaux, who had never heard the report of firearms before, did not wait for them; they turned and fled precipitately, but not before Grim captured Oosuck and dragged him forcibly to the rear, where he was pinioned and placed on the ...
— The World of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... is here the commonest of circumstances. . . ." That was early in August, and at the close of the month he wrote: "I forgot to tell you that yesterday week, at half-past 7 in the morning, we had a smart shock of an earthquake, lasting, perhaps, a quarter of a minute. It awoke me in bed. The sensation was so curious and unlike any other, that I called out at the top of my voice I was sure ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... Fourth o' July I heerd Judge Tucker tell in his pleasant voice 'at sounds like he likes talkin' t' you all that Virginia's done fer our country, an' I wished I was from Virginia too. But mebbe some day I'll make some boy wish he was from Alaska by bein' fine an' smart an' gentle like ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
... when you find the mare is dead. Goodish and the old mare are jist alike, they are all tongue them critters. I rather think it's me,' sais he, 'has the right to larf, for I've got the best of this bargain, and no mistake. This is as smart a little hoss as ever I see. I know where I can put him off to great advantage. I shall make a good day's work of this. It is about as good a hoss trade as I ever made. The French don't know nothin' about hosses; they are a simple people, ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton


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