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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