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    smartness
    [ˈsmärtnəs]
    definition
    1. noun form of smart
    smart
    [smärt]
    adjective
    smart (adjective) · smarter (comparative adjective) · smartest (superlative adjective)
    1. informal
      having or showing a quick-witted intelligence:
      "if he was that smart he would never have been tricked"
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        showing impertinence by making clever or sarcastic remarks:
        "don't get smart or I'll whack you one"
    2. (of a device) programmed so as to be capable of some independent action:
      "hi-tech smart weapons"
    3. BRITISH ENGLISH
      (of a person) clean, neat, and well dressed:
      "you look very smart"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        (of clothes) attractively neat and stylish:
        "a smart blue skirt"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        (of a thing) bright and fresh in appearance:
        "a smart green van"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        (of a person or place) fashionable and upscale:
        "a smart restaurant"
    4. quick; brisk:
      "I gave him a smart salute"
      • painfully severe:
        "a dog that snaps is given a smart blow"
    verb
    smart (verb) · smarts (third person present) · smarted (past tense) · smarted (past participle) · smarting (present participle)
    1. (of a wound or part of the body) feel or cause a sharp stinging pain:
      "her legs were scratched and smarting" · "the cut was smarting"
      • feel upset and annoyed:
        "chiefs of staff are still smarting from the government's cuts"
    noun
    smarts (plural noun) · smart (noun)
    1. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      (smarts)
      intelligence; acumen:
      "I don't think I have the smarts for it"
    2. sharp stinging pain:
      "the smart of the recent blood-raw cuts"
      • archaic
        mental pain or suffering:
        "sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith"
    adverb
    archaic
    smart (adverb)
    1. in a quick or brisk manner:
      "it is better for tenants to be compelled to pay up smart"
    Origin
    Old English smeortan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to German schmerzen; the adjective is related to the verb, the original sense (late Old English) being ‘causing sharp pain’; from this arose ‘keen, brisk’, whence the current senses of ‘mentally sharp’ and ‘neat in a brisk, sharp style’.
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    adjective
    1. having or showing a quick-witted intelligence:
      clever
      bright
      intelligent
      sharp
      sharp-witted
      quick-witted
      shrewd
      astute
      acute
      apt
      able
      well read
      perceptive
      percipient
      discerning
      brainy
      savvy
      streetwise
      on the ball
      genius
      whip-smart
      nimble-witted
      well educated
      quick on the uptake
      Opposite:
      stupid
      • (of a person) clean, neat, and well dressed:
        well dressed
        fashionable
        stylish
        chic
        modish
        elegant
        neat
        besuited
        spruce
        trim
        dapper
        debonair
        shiny
        gleaming
        bright
        spotless
        clean
        spick and span
        soigné
        snazzy
        natty
        snappy
        sharp
        nifty
        cool
        with it
        kicking
        kicky
        tony
        fly
        spiffy
        sassy
        stylin'
        on fleek
        swagger
        trig
        well turned out
        fashionably dressed
        as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox
        Opposite:
        scruffy
      • quick; brisk:
        brisk
        quick
        fast
        rapid
        swift
        lively
        spanking
        energetic
        spirited
        vigorous
        jaunty
        snappy
        cracking
        rattling
        Opposite:
        slow
      verb
      1. (of a wound or part of the body) feel or cause a sharp stinging pain:
        sting
        burn
        tingle
        prickle
        hurt
        ache
      noun
      1. intelligence; acumen:
        astuteness
        awareness
        shrewdness
        acuity
        sharpness
        sharp-wittedness
        cleverness
        brightness
        smartness
        judgment
        understanding
        sense
        common sense
        canniness
        discernment
        wisdom
        wit
        sagacity
        perspicacity
        ingenuity
        insight
        intuition
        intuitiveness
        perception
        perspicuity
        penetration
        capability
        enterprise
        initiative
        resourcefulness
        flair
        vision
        brains
        savoir faire
        nous
        savvy
        know-how
        horse sense
        gumption
        gray matter
        common
        smarts
        sapience
        powers of reasoning
        arguteness
        Opposite:
        witlessness
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