smart
/smɑɹt/ adjective A1- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology). · smart car· smartcard
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable. · a smart outfit· You look smart in that business suit.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful. · He became tired of his girlfriend's smart remarks.· Don't get smart with me!
- Sudden and intense.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
- Sharp; keen; poignant. · a smart pain
Comparative smarter · Superlative smartest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutes’ time, with her clothes neatly on, her hair brushed and braided, her face washed, and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marilla’s requirements.
Be as smart as you can.”
We heard last week she was going, so we sent her word by Richard Spencer’s folks at Carmody to bring us a smart, likely boy of about ten or eleven.
It is an open secret that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to the well-known Scotland Yard officials, Messrs.
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