smart
Other forms: smarting; smarter; smartest; smarted; smarts; smartingly
Although smart is most often used to describe someone who is intelligent, you can also call someone a smart, chic dresser or a smart, sassy wisecracker.
Smart often implies something good, but not always. If someone cautions you, "Don't be smart with me!" — they are demanding that you stop acting so bold and rude. As a verb, if something smarts, then it hurts. If your knee smarts, then you probably whacked it. However, if someone says that you are a smart dresser or a smart thinker, you can take those comments as compliments.
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characterized by quickness and ease in learning“smart children talk earlier than the average”
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bright
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intelligent
having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
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intelligent
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capable of independent and apparently intelligent action“smart weapons”
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automatic
operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
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automatic
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quick and brisk“I gave him a smart salute”“we walked at a smart pace”
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fast
acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
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fast
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showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
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astute, savvy, sharp, shrewd
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
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cagey, cagy, canny, clever
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
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street smart, streetwise, with-it
having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment
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intelligent
having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
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stupid
lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky
having or revealing stupidity
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blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed
(used informally) stupid
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cloddish, doltish
heavy and dull and stupid
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dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
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gaumless, gormless
(British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality
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lumpen, lumpish, unthinking
mentally sluggish
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nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
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weak
deficient in intelligence or mental power
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yokel-like
stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants
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stupid, unintelligent
lacking intelligence
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astute, savvy, sharp, shrewd
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elegant and stylish“a smart new dress”
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fashionable, stylish
having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
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fashionable, stylish
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painfully severe
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intense
possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
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intense
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be the source of pain
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bite, burn, sear, sting
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
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burn
feel hot or painful
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itch
have or perceive an itch
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hunger
feel the need to eat
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thirst
feel the need to drink
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act up
make itself felt as a recurring pain
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throb
pulsate or pound with abnormal force
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shoot
cause a sharp and sudden pain in
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tickle, titillate, vellicate
touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
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nettle, urticate
sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
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twang
twitch or throb with pain
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prickle, tingle
cause a stinging or tingling sensation
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cause to be perceived
have perceptible qualities
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a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
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improperly forward or bold
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