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Definition of 'SMART'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) smart
having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability:
a smart student.

2.  smart
quick or prompt in action, as a person.

3.  smart
shrewd or sharp, as a person in dealing with others.

4.  smart
clever, witty, or readily effective, as a speaker, speech, or rejoinder.

5.  smart
neat or trim in appearance, as a person or garment; spruce.

6.  smart
socially elegant; sophisticated or fashionable:
the smart crowd.

7.  smart
saucy; pert:
smart remarks.

8.  smart
brisk or vigorous:
to walk with smart steps.

9.  smart
sharply severe, as a blow.

10.  smart
sharp or keen:
a smart pain.

11.  smart
equipped with, using, or containing electronic control devices, as missiles.

12.  smart
Computers.

13. (v.i.) smart
to be a source of sharp, local, and usu. superficial pain, as a wound.

14.  smart
to be the cause of a sharp, stinging pain, as an irritating application or a blow.

15.  smart
to feel a sharp, stinging pain, as in a wound.

16.  smart
to suffer keenly from wounded feelings.

17.  smart
to feel shame or remorse or to suffer in punishment or in return for something.

18. (v.t.) smart
to cause a sharp pain to or in.

19. (adv.) smart
in a smart manner; smartly.

20. (n.) smart
a sharp local pain, usu. superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.

21.  smart
keen mental suffering, as from wounded feelings, affliction, or grievous loss.

22.  smart
Informal. intelligence; common sense.

Etymology: (bef. 1050; (v.) ME smerten, OE -smeortan, c. MD

Definition of 'SMART'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) smart, smarting, smartness
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

2. (adj) smart
showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

3. (adj) chic, smart, voguish
elegant and stylish
"chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"

4. (adj) 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"

5. (adj) 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!"

6. (adj) smart
painfully severe
"he gave the dog a smart blow"

7. (adj) smart
quick and brisk
"I gave him a smart salute"; "we walked at a smart pace"

8. (verb) smart
capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
"smart weapons"

9. (verb) ache, smart, hurt
be the source of pain

Definition of 'SMART'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) smart
intelligent
She's a smart girl for her age.; a smart decision

2.  smart
(of weapons) using computers to make them very accurate
smart bombs

3.  smart
(of clothing) neat and tidy, or dressed neatly
You're looking smart today.

4.  smart
fashionable and wealthy or expensive
a smart hotel in the heart of the city

Definition of 'SMART'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) SMART
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

2. (verb) SMART
to feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil

3. (verb) SMART
to cause a smart in

4. (verb) SMART
quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles

5. (verb) SMART
severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction

6. (verb) SMART
a fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy

7. (verb) SMART
smart money (see below)

8. (verb) SMART
causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste

9. (verb) SMART
keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain

10. (verb) SMART
vigorous; sharp; severe

11. (verb) SMART
accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever

12. (verb) SMART
efficient; vigorous; brilliant

13. (verb) SMART
marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying

14. (verb) SMART
pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown

15. (verb) SMART
brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze

Definitions of 'SMART'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. SMART
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).

Translation of 'SMART'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: neat and well-dressed; fashionable You're looking very smart today; a smart suit.
Afrikaans: netjies, modieus	Arabic: أنيق	Bulgarian: модерен
Brazilian: elegante	Czech: elegantní	German: fesch
Danish: smart	Greek: κομψός	Spanish: elegante
Estonian: elegantne, moekas	Farsi: خوش لباس	Finnish: tyylikäs
French: élégant	Hebrew: נָאֶה	Hindi: साफ-सुथरा, सुव्यवस्थित, ब
Croatian: elegantan, ukusan	Hungarian: elegáns	Indonesian: necis
Icelandic: vel til hafður; smart, tí	Italian: elegante	Japanese: スマートな
Korean: (옷차림이) 스마트한	Lithuanian: puošnus, madingas, išsipu	Latvian: elegants; smalks
Malay: kemas	Dutch: chic	Norwegian: velkledd/-pleid, smart
Polish: elegancki	Persian: خوش لباس	Pashto: سوځېدل (لكه دمچۍ دچيچلو پ
Portuguese: elegante	Romanian: elegant	Russian: опрятный; элегантный
Slovak: elegantný	Slovenian: eleganten	Serbian: elegantan
Swedish: stilig, snofsig, flott	Thai: สะอาดและประณีต	Turkish: şık
Taiwanese: 瀟灑，瀟灑的，時髦的	Ukrainian: чепурний	Urdu: خوش لباس، خوش وضع
Vietnamese: thanh nhã, lịch sự	Chinese: 潇洒的，衣冠楚楚的，时髦的
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