smart

Meanings

Verb

• To hurt or sting.
• To cause a smart or sting in.
• To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.

Adjective

• Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
• Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
• Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
• Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
• Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
• Sudden and intense.
• Causing sharp pain; stinging.
• Sharp; keen; poignant.
• Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right.
• Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
• Pretentious; showy; spruce.
• Brisk; fresh.

Noun

• A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
• Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
• Smart-money.
• A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

Origin

• From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan ("to smart"), from Proto-Germanic *smertaną ("to hurt, ache"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- ("to bite, sting"). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.
• From Middle English smert, smart, from Old English smeart ("smarting, smart, painful"), from Proto-Germanic *smartaz ("hurting, aching"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- ("to bite, sting"). Cognate with Scots smert ("painful, smart"), Old Frisian smert ("sharp, painful").
• From Middle English smerte, from smerten; see above. Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smart, Low German smart, German Schmerz, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta. More above.