Smart \Smart\, v. t.
To cause a smart in. "A goad that . . . smarts the flesh."
--T. Adams.
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Smart \Smart\ (sm[aum]rt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Smarting.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D.
smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte,
Sw. sm[aum]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, OHG.
smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr.
smerdno`s, smerdale`os, terrible, fearful, Skr. m[.r]d to
rub, crush. Cf. Morsel.]
1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part
of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger
smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak.
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2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or
grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team
is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
--Prov. xi.
15.
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Smart \Smart\, n. [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.]
1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the
pain from puncture by nettles. "In pain's smart."
--Chaucer.
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2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart
of affliction.
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To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. --Milton.
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Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. --Spenser.
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3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a
dandy. [Slang] --Fielding.
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4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
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Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. Smarter; superl. Smartest.] [OE.
smerte. See Smart, v. i.]
1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or
taste.
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How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
--Shak.
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2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
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3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. "Smart skirmishes, in which many
fell." --Clarendon.
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4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly;
active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
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5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "The stars shine smarter."
--Dryden.
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6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or
reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart
saying.
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Who, for the poor renown of being smart
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
--Young.
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A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.
--Addison.
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7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
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8. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
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Smart money.
(a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some
unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
(b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the
English service, for wounds and injures received;
also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn
in, to procure his release from service.
(c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond
a full compensation for the actual injury done.
--Burrill. --Greenleaf.
Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen,
entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
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Syn: Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively;
brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy.
Usage: Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New
England to describe a person who is intelligent,
vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a
smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the
English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this
in England is in such expressions as, he was smart
(pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and
smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly
refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown,
etc.
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smart
adj 1: showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
[ant: stupid]
2: elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress";
"a suit of voguish cut" [syn: chic, voguish]
3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some
children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart
children talk earlier than the average" [syn: bright]
4: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me";
"impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an
impudent boy given to insulting strangers" [syn: fresh,
impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy, sassy]
5: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty,
natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]
n : a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a
sore [syn: smarting]
v : be the source of pain [syn: ache, hurt]
WordNet (r) 2.0
302 Moby Thesaurus words for "smart":
Attic, ache, active, acute, adept, adroit, affect, affliction,
agile, agonize, ail, alacritous, alert, alive, all the rage,
all the thing, anal, anguish, animated, apt, astute, attentive,
au fait, awake, aware, bantering, be resentful, biggety, bite,
biting, blanch, blench, bluff, bold, booing, brainy, brash, braw,
breezy, bright, brilliant, brisk, burn, burning, burning pain,
canny, capable, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chic, chutzpadik,
classy, clever, clothes-conscious, cocky, come home to,
contemptuous, cosmopolitan, crusty, current, dapper, dashing,
derisive, derisory, dexterous, dinky, discerning, dispatchful,
disrespectful, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, droll,
effective, elegant, energetic, erudite, exclusive, expeditious,
exquisite, facetious, facy, fashionable, feel hurt, feel pain,
feel resentment, feel sore, feel the pangs, fire, fleering, flip,
flippant, fooling, fresh, funny, gally, genteel, gifted, go deep,
go through one, good, gratuitous, grimace, grinning, harm,
have a misery, hep, hip, hissing, hooting, humorous, humorsome,
hurt, impertinent, impudent, in fashion, in style, in vogue,
ingenious, injury, intelligent, jaunty, jeering, jesting, jocose,
jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kidding,
knowing, knowledgeable, learned, leering, lively, malapert, melt,
melt the heart, mocking, mod, modern, modish, mordant, move, natty,
neat, nervy, new, newfashioned, nifty, nimble, nimble-witted,
no dumbbell, nobby, not born yesterday, nurse resentment, on the,
on the alert, on the ball, on the job, pain, pang, panning,
penetrate, perceptive, percipient, perky, perspicacious, pert,
pierce, pinch, poignant, pointed, popular, posh, pound, prevalent,
prick, prickle, prompt, pungent, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking,
quick-witted, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, rapier-like,
razzing, ready, recherche, resent, respectable, ridiculing, right,
ritzy, roasting, rude, salt, salty, sassy, saucy, savvy,
scintillating, scoffing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shipshape,
shoot, shrewd, shrink, sizable, sleek, sleepless, slick,
smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarting, smirking, smug, snappy, snazzy,
sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, snug, soften, soigne,
soignee, sophisticated, sparkling, speedy, spiffy, spirited,
sprightly, spruce, spry, stab, steel-trap, stiff, sting, stinging,
stir, streetwise, style-conscious, stylish, suffer, suffering,
swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, talented, taunting, teasing,
thrill, throb, tidy, tight, tingle, tingling, touch, touch a chord,
trenchant, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, twinge, twitch, twitting,
unblinking, uncalled-for, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking,
up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, urtication, vigorous,
wakeful, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-educated, well-groomed,
well-read, well-versed, whimsical, wide-awake, wince, wise-ass,
with-it, witty, writhe
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
SMART
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (HDD, IDE, Conner,
IBM, Quantum, Seagate, WD), "S.M.A.R.T."
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
smart adj. Said of a program that does the Right Thing in a wide
variety of complicated circumstances. There is a difference between
calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there
do not exist any intelligent programs (yet -- see AI-complete).
Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle).
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
SMART
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smart
1. Said of a program that does the Right Thing
in a wide variety of complicated circumstances. There is a
difference between calling a program smart and calling it
intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent
programs (yet - see AI-complete).
Compare robust (smart programs can be brittle).
2. Incorporating some kind of digital electronics.
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