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.
  • Research reveals the UK is confused by the term smart/casual
  • After all, the term "smart growth" was first coined in Maryland.
  • In fact, mommy is SO smart that she rapes all the silly vain ’smart’ women, forcing them into pregnancy or death.
  • One website, Macaoyuan, features a popular posting named 30 Money Saving Tricks, which is geared towards what it calls smart penny pinching women in Shanghai.
  • Of course, you could also argue that Bob was smart enough to get himself into those rarefied realms in the first place, but there is a lot more to that than ’smart.’
  • Harvard international affairs expert Joseph Nye, often credited with coining the term "smart power," said Clinton and Obama had made strides in coordinating work between the Pentagon and the State Department.
  • On the security side, the competitive picture is -- you know, McAfee acquired Secure Computing so where we would use the term smart filter, our sum product in that are the web watcher product, that hasn't really changed.

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