Definitions for smarts

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Spelling: [smahrt]

IPA: /smɑrt/

Smarts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in smarts (amrsst).

Definitions for smarts

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 smarts

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 smarts

Possibly there was considerable of irony in it too, the kind that smarts with all lads.

Where smarts numbers are different, they are shown with popups.

Yet seriously there cannot be any doubt about Ted Cruz's "smarts."

The ladies brought their A game with smarts, female sensibility, and sass showing in spades.

smarts they still, sickness soothing: in twelve moons thrice an hundred.

You flog us like children, but you forget that we are grown, and that it is more than the body that smarts.

Paul Ryan, heralded for his smarts, will have an opportunity to prove just how sharp he is in front of a large national audience.

After the flesh glove, come two courses of soaping—how it smarts!

Washington is riveting as a woman with smarts, guts, and a weakness for her former boss, the leader of the free world.

Some people have the smarts to grow the economic pie more than others and will end up serving themselves a relatively big slice.