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smart adjective (INTELLIGENT)
Maddy's teacher says she's one of the smartest kids in the class.
Why don't you fix it if you're so smart?
He's smart enough to know he can't run the business without her.
smart move Quitting that job was the smartest move I ever made.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- intelligentHe seems like a very intelligent young man.
- cleverI'm the cleverest kid in the class.
- smartShe's incredibly smart and a great writer.
- brightJacob was a very bright boy.
- sharpHow can we stay mentally sharp as we age?
smart adjective (QUICK)
smart adjective (WORKING BY COMPUTER)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
smart adjective (WITHOUT RESPECT )
get smart Don't get smart with me, young lady!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
smart from My eyes were smarting from the onions.
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- hurtMy leg hurts.
- acheMy legs are still aching from my run yesterday.
- throbMy head throbbed.
- stingHis cheeks stung from the aftershave he'd just put on.
- smartThe smoke was thick, making her eyes smart.
- rubThe clothing is cleverly stitched to prevent the seams rubbing anywhere.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of smart from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
smart | American Dictionary
smart adjective [-er/-est only] (INTELLIGENT)
Jed’s smart enough to get A’s in this class.
Her daughter is smarter than she is.
Ginny is a very smart kid.
Quitting that job was a smart move.
smart adjective [-er/-est only] (STYLISH)
smart verb [I] (STING)
fig. Sacramento is still smarting from the loss (= is upset by it).
(Definition of smart from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of smart
smart
Of these, households with the largest living quarters and the smartest interior are preferred.
I think he was smarting from a castigation he got the other day.
If they are smarting under a grievance, how much more must ordinary people be smarting because of the grievances they feel?
We have emerged after facing the people, a democracy that was smarting from cuts.
Clearly, they are still smarting from their defeat on both counts.
They have come with a grievance and a smarting under a sense of injustice very often against courts of summary jurisdiction.
Still smarting somewhat from the last election, we take well and gratefully receive those remarks.
There have been many complaints, particularly about smarting eyes and running noses caused by sulphuric acid spray from the cooling system.
At the same time those of us who belong to the engineering industry are smarting under a grievance.
As a result we shall be left high and dry, and people in various localities will be left smarting.
A hungry populace, smarting under a sense of injustice, would continually have been a potential, and possibly an actual, source of danger to property.
Are you going to embitter it by having the working classes smarting under an obvious injustice?
His wounds were very quick; they smarted, but you recovered from them quickly.
A man who could bear the blows of his enemies with equanimity must have smarted under such lashes from his countrymen.
Nevertheless, we have put patriotism and loyalty to the war effort before the grievances under which the engineers are smarting.
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