smart

smart is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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.
2. intransitive verb. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
3. transitive verb. To cause a smart in.
4. intransitive verb. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
5. intransitive verb. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
6. intransitive verb. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
7. intransitive verb. Smart money (see below).
8. intransitive verb. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
9. intransitive verb. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
10. intransitive verb. Vigorous; sharp; severe.
11. intransitive verb. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
12. intransitive verb. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
13. intransitive verb. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
14. intransitive verb. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
15. intransitive verb. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
16. noun. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

    Synonyms: smarting, smartness

17. verb. be the source of pain

    Synonyms: ache, hurt

18. adjective. capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

    "smart weapons"

19. adjective. improperly forward or bold

    "don't be fresh with me"

    "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"

    Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise

20. adjective. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
21. adjective. elegant and stylish

    "chic elegance"

    "a smart new dress"

    Synonyms: chic, voguish

22. adjective. quick and brisk

    "I gave him a smart salute"

    "we walked at a smart pace"

23. adjective. characterized by quickness and ease in learning

    "some children are brighter in one subject than another"

    "smart children talk earlier than the average"

    Synonyms: bright

24. adjective. painfully severe

    "he gave the dog a smart blow"

Synonyms

smarting, smartness, ache, hurt, fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise, chic, voguish, bright

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smart:

marts, stram, trams

Common word forms

smarts, smarted, smarten, smarter, smartly, smartest, smarting, smartless, smartness

Words from these letters

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