Definitions for Smart

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Spelling: [smahrt]

IPA: /smɑrt/

Smart is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in Smart (amrst).

Definitions for Smart

noun

1. a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
2. keen mental suffering, as from wounded feelings, affliction, grievous loss, etc.
3. smarts, Slang. intelligence; common sense:

adverb

1. in a smart manner; smartly.

adjective

1. quick or prompt in action, as persons.
2. having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability:
3. shrewd or sharp, as a person in dealing with others or as in business dealings:
4. clever, witty, or readily effective, as a speaker, speech, rejoinder, etc.
5. dashingly or impressively neat or trim in appearance, as persons, dress, etc.
6. socially elegant; sophisticated or fashionable:
7. saucy; pert:
8. sharply brisk, vigorous, or active:
9. sharply severe, as a blow, stroke, etc.
10. sharp or keen:
11. (of a machine, system, etc.) equipped with electronic control mechanisms and capable of automated and seemingly intelligent operation:
12. having properties that can be changed in response to stimuli or environmental conditions; self-regulating:
13. Computers. intelligent (def 4).
14. Older Use. considerable; fairly large.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause a sharp pain to or in.

verb (used without object)

1. to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
2. to be the cause of a sharp, stinging pain, as an irritating application, a blow, etc.
3. to feel a sharp, stinging pain, as in a wound.
4. to suffer keenly from wounded feelings:
5. to feel shame or remorse or to suffer in punishment or in return for something.

Origin of Smart

before 1050; (v.) Middle English smerten, Old English -smeortan (only in the compound fyrsmeortende painful like fire), cognate with Old High German smerzan (German schmerzen); (adj.) Middle

Examples for Smart

Thorgerson and Powell turned to video and film—a smart move given the emergence of MTV.

I know there are police officers who are kind, compassionate, and smart.

It used to be frequently said back in 2000 that Jeb was “the smart brother.”

In the ordinary business of life the smart man has had his day.

A lot of British pubs have been smart enough to understand this and respond.

"Kedge is too smart to take it all to himself," commented Mr. Martin.

A woman in a smart uniform scribbles out tickets for a growing line of tourists eager to take a trip on the old-fashioned train.

So, you see, Miss, what company your smart challenge will draw together.

And for five years, remembering them, I had been proud of being "smart."

The point of the cutlass just passed my hip-bone, and gave me a smart flesh-wound.