Definition of smart

"smart" in the noun sense

1. smart, smarting, smartness

a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

"smart" in the verb sense

1. ache, smart, hurt

be the source of pain

"smart" in the adjective sense

1. smart

showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

2. chic, smart, voguish

elegant and stylish

"chic elegance"

"a smart new dress"

"a suit of voguish cut"

3. bright, smart

characterized by quickness and ease in learning

"some children are brighter in one subject than another"

"smart children talk earlier than the average"

4. fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise

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"

"Don't get wise with me!"

5. smart

painfully severe

"he gave the dog a smart blow"

6. smart

quick and brisk

"I gave him a smart salute"

"we walked at a smart pace"

7. smart

capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

"smart weapons"

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Quotations for smart

Itch is more intolerable than smart. [ Proverb ]

He that handles thorns shall smart for it. [ Proverb ]

Your sayer of smart things has a bad heart. [ Pascal ]

A smart coat is a good letter of introduction. [ Dutch Proverb ]

That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]

He that will not bear the itch must endure the smart. [ Proverb ]

Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. [ Lowell ]

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? [ Carlyle ]

When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

smart in Scrabble®

The word smart is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters smart:

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smart in Words With Friends™

The word smart is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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MARTS
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TRAMS
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Word Growth involving smart

Shorter words in smart

ar art mart

ar mar mart

ma mar mart

Longer words containing smart

outsmart outsmarted

outsmart outsmarting

outsmart outsmarts

smartass smartasses

smartcard smartcards

smartdrive smartdrives

smarted outsmarted

smarten smartened

smarten smartening

smarten smartens

smarter

smartest

smartie smarties

smarting outsmarting

smarting smartingly

smartly

smartmouth smartmouths

smartness

smartphone smartphones

smarts outsmarts

smarts streetsmarts

smarty smartypants

streetsmart streetsmarts