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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



... tears, did not heed the birds' songs or understand those plain directions for finding Archie which they were so ready to give. The tree trunk felt comfortable against her back. The air came cool and spicy from the wood depths to steal the smart from her hot face. The rustle of the leaves was pleasant in her ear. So the ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... three-days beard lent a gleam of snow to chaps and chin; being toothless, he was an indifferent performer upon the onion. But his hearing was as keen as his eyesight. He caught Angioletto's vivacious heeltaps upon the flags, and peered from burly brows at the smart little gentleman, cloaked, feathered, and gaudy, who looked as suitable to his dusty surroundings as a red ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... began to smart furiously. By the time he was half way up the stairs he could not see a thing around him save murky clouds of smoke, lighted by the tongues of flame that darted like serpents ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren
... is going back to New York, to open a saloon (as they call it) in partnership with another man. He's in England, he says, on business. It's my belief that he wants money for this new venture on bad security. They're smart people in New York. His only chance of getting his bills discounted is to humbug his relations, ...
— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins
... this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house, drinking of my own rum! Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed dead-lights! Now, Hawkins, you do me justice with the cap'n. You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when you first came in. Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on? When I was an A B master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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