1. sharp stinging pain. cause a sharp stinging pain; hurt, feel a sharp stinging pain; feel distress or humiliation. intelligent; clever; impertinent; shrewd; energetic, lively; fashionable, stylish. smart\smart\, v. t. to cause a smart in. "a goad that smarts the flesh." adams.smart \smart\, n. [oe. smerte. see:
smart, v. i.].
2. quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. "in pain's smart.".
3. severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. to stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
4. a fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [slang].
5. smart money (see:
below). [canf]smart \smart\ , a. [compar. smarter ; superl. smartest.] [oe. smerte. see:
smart, v. i.].
6. causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste. how smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
7. keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
8. vigorous; sharp; severe. "smart skirmishes, in which many fell.".
9. accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [colloq.].
10. efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "the stars shine smarter.".
11. marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying. who, for the poor renown of being smart would leave a sting within a brother's heart? a sentence or two, which i thought very smart.
12. pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
13. brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.smart money. (a) money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation. (b) (mil.) money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the english service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service. (c) (law) vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. --greenleaf.smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [eng.].
14. 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.
15. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
16. To cause a smart in.
17. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
18. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
19. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
20. Smart money.
21. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
22. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
23. Vigorous; sharp; severe.
24. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
25. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
26. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
27. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
28. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.
29. 1. Smart people and things are pleasantly neat and clean in appearance. He was smart and well groomed but not good looking I was dressed in a smart navy blue suit. smart new offices. + smartly smart·ly He dressed very smartly which was important in those days. a smartly-painted door. + smartness smart·ness The jumper strikes the perfect balance between comfort and smartness.
30. You can describe someone who is clever as smart. He thinks he's smarter than Sarah is Buying expensive furniture is not necessarily the smartest move to make. see also:
smartly, street smart.
31. A smart place or event is connected with wealthy and fashionable people. smart London dinner parties. a smart residential district.
32. Smart bombs and weapons are guided by computers and lasers so that they hit their targets accurately.
33. If a part of your body or a wound smarts, you feel a sharp stinging pain in it. My eyes smarted from the smoke. = sting.
34. If you are smarting from something such as criticism or failure, you feel upset about it. The Americans were still smarting from their defeat in the Vietnam War.
35. the smart money: see:
money.