Smart

Adjective

 * 1) Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
 * 2) * 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 19
 * “I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me.”
 * 1) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
 * 2) Good-looking.
 * a smart outfit
 * 1) Cleverly and/or sarcastically humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.  Cf: (verb) to smart off; (noun) smarty pants, wise guy, wiseacre, wise-ass; (adjective) cute.
 * He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks.
 * 1) Sudden and intense.
 * 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore, Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
 * There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
 * 2) * He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart.
 * 3) * That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart.

Synonyms

 * bright, capable, sophisticated, witty
 * cultivated, educated, learned
 * attractive, chic, stylish, handsome
 * See also Thesaurus:learned

Antonyms

 * backward, boorish, dull, inept
 * ignorant, uncultivated, simple
 * garish, outré, tacky

Derived terms

 * smart as a whip
 * smart casual
 * smart off

Verb

 * 1)  To hurt or sting.
 * After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
 * 1) * 1897,, Chapter 21
 * He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."

Adverbs for Smart
comically; facetiously; banteringly; foolishly; jestingly; cleverly; felicitously; uncommonly; brilliantly; unusually; thoroughly; ingeniously; amazingly; admirably; wonderfully; wittily; drolly; sparklingly; acutely; capably cunningly; craftily; sensibly; reasonably  sagely; prudently; subtly; consciously impressively; learnedly; notoriously; proverbially; assiduously; alertly; sedulously; earnestly; actively.

Thesaurus
Attic, ache, active, acute, adept, adroit, affect, affliction, agile, agonize, ail, alacritous, alert, alive, all the rage, all the thing, anal, anguish, animated, apt, astute, attentive, au fait, awake, aware, bantering, be resentful, biggety, bite, biting, blanch, blench, bluff, bold, booing, brainy, brash, braw, breezy, bright, brilliant, brisk, burn, burning, burning pain, canny, capable, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chic, chutzpadik, classy, clever, clothes-conscious, cocky, come home to, contemptuous, cosmopolitan, crusty, current, dapper, dashing, derisive, derisory, dexterous, dinky, discerning, dispatchful, disrespectful, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, droll, effective, elegant, energetic, erudite, exclusive, expeditious, exquisite, facetious, facy, fashionable, feel hurt, feel pain, feel resentment, feel sore, feel the pangs, fire, fleering, flip, flippant, fooling, fresh, funny, gally, genteel, gifted, go deep, go through one, good, gratuitous, grimace, grinning, harm, have a misery, hep, hip, hissing, hooting, humorous, humorsome, hurt, impertinent, impudent, in fashion, in style, in vogue, ingenious, injury, intelligent, jaunty, jeering, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kidding, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, leering, lively, malapert, melt, melt the heart, mocking, mod, modern, modish, mordant, move, natty, neat, nervy, new, newfashioned, nifty, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, nobby, not born yesterday, nurse resentment, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, pain, pang, panning, penetrate, perceptive, percipient, perky, perspicacious, pert, pierce, pinch, poignant, pointed, popular, posh, pound, prevalent, prick, prickle, prompt, pungent, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, rapier-like, razzing, ready, recherche, resent, respectable, ridiculing, right, ritzy, roasting, rude, salt, salty, sassy, saucy, savvy, scintillating, scoffing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shipshape, shoot, shrewd, shrink, sizable, sleek, sleepless, slick, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarting, smirking, smug, snappy, snazzy, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, snug, soften, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sparkling, speedy, spiffy, spirited, sprightly, spruce, spry, stab, steel-trap, stiff, sting, stinging, stir, streetwise, style-conscious, stylish, suffer, suffering, swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, talented, taunting, teasing, thrill, throb, tidy, tight, tingle, tingling, touch, touch a chord, trenchant, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, twinge, twitch, twitting, unblinking, uncalled-for, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, urtication, vigorous, wakeful, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-educated, well-groomed, well-read, well-versed, whimsical, wide-awake, wince, wise-ass, with-it, witty, writhe

Etymology
From Old English smeortan, from West Germanic, whence also Old High German smerzan and Modern German.

Adjective

 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese: 洗練された
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: gudrs
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Afrikaans: intelligent
 * Arabic: ذكي
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 聰明, 聪明
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: habile, intelligent
 * German: klug, intelligent, gescheit
 * Hindi: होशियार


 * Japanese: 賢い, 利口, 頭がいい
 * Khmer: ឆ្លាត
 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai: ฉลาด
 * Urdu: ہوشیار
 * Vietnamese: thông minh (聰明)


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:


 * : (bauš),  (tīz),  (zīrak)
 * : listo
 * :, klyftig, intelligent (1)

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Japanese: 痛める
 * Turkish: ,

Anagrams

 * marts
 * trams

Adjective

 * 1) clever (mentally sharp or bright)

Adjective

 * smart


 * 1) smart; clever