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smɑːrt ]
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smɑːt ]
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Adjective

1. (of a person) clean, tidy, and well dressed.

They considered themselves to be smart and fashionable.

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2. (of clothes) attractively neat and stylish.

She wears smart clothes and carries herself with dignity.

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3. (of an object) bright and fresh in appearance.

It is a smart green coloured train with Urdu lettering.

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4. (of a place) fashionable and upmarket.

I have been to a very smart place called Century on Shaftesbury Ave.

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5. Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence.

They equate winning with intellect, rich with smart.

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6. Showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks.

This opened the door for me to make a smart remark, and I did.

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7. (of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action.

hi-tech smart weapons

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8. Quick; brisk.

We galloped out of Vals at a smart pace and made the 124 Km quite easily in the prescribed 2 1/2 hours.

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Verb

1. (of a wound or part of the body) feel or cause a sharp stinging pain.

My tootsies are smarting like you wouldn't believe.

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2. Feel upset and annoyed.

He is still clearly smarting from the wounds from this film.

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Noun

1. Sharp stinging pain.

the smart of the recent cuts

2. Mental pain or suffering.

sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith

3. (smarts) Intelligence; acumen.

I don't think I have the smarts for it

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Origin

1. Old English smeortan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to German schmerzen; the adjective is related to the verb, the original sense (late Old English) being ‘causing sharp pain’; from this arose ‘keen, brisk’, whence the current senses of ‘mentally sharp’ and ‘neat in a brisk, sharp style’.

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