smart

IPA: smˈɑrt

noun

  • A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
  • Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
  • Smart-money.
  • (slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
  • A surname.
  • (computer hardware) Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology; also S.M.A.R.T.: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.
  • Acronym of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers.

verb

  • (intransitive) To hurt or sting.
  • (transitive) To cause a smart or sting in.
  • (intransitive) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.

adjective

  • Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
  • (informal) Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
  • (often in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
  • (technology, of human users) Able to see through a false positive of a digital / computer technology equipped with intelligent behavior.
  • Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
  • Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
  • Sudden and intense.
  • Causing sharp pain; stinging.
  • Sharp; keen; poignant.
  • (Southern US, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
  • (archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
  • (archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
  • (archaic) Brisk; fresh.
  • (Appalachia) Hard-working.
  • (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering desirable characteristics for goal-setting: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time-bound. (See SMART criteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
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Examples of "smart" in Sentences

  • They are smart and intelligent.
  • They are the wise and the smart.
  • The man's wife is very smart and politic.
  • I knew that the boy is smart, not retarded.
  • A smart linguistic taxonomist does the same.
  • He is very smart and filial to the princess.
  • The present members of the council are smart.
  • People think that she is smart and sophisticated.
  • A smart description of a miser is in the article.
  • Beebo was smart, handsome, chivalrous, and virile.

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