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SMART
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("smart" is a kind of...):
hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)
Derivation:
smart (be the source of pain)
smart (painfully severe)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of independent and apparently intelligent action
Example:
smart weapons
Classified under:
Similar:
automatic (operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Improperly forward or bold
Example:
Don't get wise with me!
Synonyms:
fresh; impertinent; impudent; overbold; sassy; saucy; smart; wise
Classified under:
Similar:
forward (used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
astute; sharp; shrewd (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence)
cagey; cagy; canny; clever (showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others)
street smart; streetwise; with-it (having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment)
Also:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Antonym:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Derivation:
smartness (intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Elegant and stylish
Example:
a suit of voguish cut
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress)
Derivation:
smartness (elegance by virtue of being fashionable)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Quick and brisk
Example:
we walked at a smart pace
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Derivation:
smartness (liveliness and eagerness)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Characterized by quickness and ease in learning
Example:
smart children talk earlier than the average
Synonyms:
bright; smart
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Derivation:
smartness (intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Painfully severe
Example:
he gave the dog a smart blow
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Derivation:
smart; smartness (a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they smart ... he / she / it smarts
Past simple: smarted
Past participle: smarted
-ing form: smarting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be the source of pain
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "smart" is one way to...):
cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smart"):
bite; burn; sting (cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort)
burn (feel hot or painful)
itch (have or perceive an itch)
hunger (feel the need to eat)
thirst (feel the need to drink)
act up (make itself felt as a recurring pain)
throb (pulsate or pound with abnormal force)
shoot (cause a sharp and sudden pain in)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody's (body part) ----s
Sentence example:
Did his feet smart?
Derivation:
smart; smarting (a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore)
Context examples:
“I make him wince, and smart. I say to myself, “I'll conquer that fellow”; and if it were to cost him all the blood he had, I should do it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The smart bus is much cheaper than building a rail track.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
And on the porch, before the delighted family, Judge Scott, face to face with White Fang, said slowly and solemnly, sixteen times, "White Fang, you are smarter than I thought."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
If you are not sure what you would ask the universe to give you, I say, look at your smart phone.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
While I was thus employed, the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face, and, beside the excessive smart, gave me much disturbance in my work.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then she tied it up with a smart red ribbon, and sat a minute looking at it with a sober, wistful expression, which plainly showed how earnest her work had been.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
My spirits are quite jaded with listening to his nonsense: and then, being such a smart young fellow, I saw every eye was upon us.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Scientists from the University of Granada have used magnetic materials in “smart” asphalts that modify their properties in the presence of external magnetic fields.
(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)
