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smart
Universal Words
adjective, verb
adjective (smarter, smartest)
clean / neat
1 (especially BrE) (of people) looking clean and neat; well dressed in fashionable and/or formal clothes:
You look very smart in that suit. * I have to be smart for work.
2 (especially BrE) (of clothes, etc.) clean, neat and looking new and attractive:
They were wearing their smartest clothes. * a smart car
intelligent
3 (especially AmE) intelligent:
She's smarter than her brother. * That was a smart career move. * OK, I admit it was not the smartest thing I ever did (= it was a stupid thing to do). * The smart money is on Liam Neeson for best actor (= smart people are betting on him).
fashionable
4 (especially BrE) connected with fashionable rich people:
smart hotels / restaurants * She mixes with the smart set.
quick
5 (of a movement, etc.) quick and usually done with force:
He was struck with a smart crack on the head. * We set off at a smart pace.
weapon / bomb
6 a very accurate weapon/bomb that is controlled by computers
smartly adverb (especially BrE):
smartly dressed * He ran off pretty smartly (= quickly and suddenly).
smartness noun [U]
verb [V]
1 ~ (from sth) to feel a sharp stinging pain in a part of your body:
His eyes were smarting from the smoke. * The wound was beginning to smart a little. * I rubbed my smarting eyes.
2 ~ (from / over sth) to feel upset about a criticism, failure, etc:
They are still smarting from the 40 defeat last week. * He is still smarting over his humiliation in the election.
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